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Originally Posted by Canada
As much as I like the ability of the IPOD for running and also while I'm traveling on the bus, but I love having the physical copy of my music (CD)
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Yes, me too, but people like us are quickly becoming a minority. For me, if I don't see it in front of me (the physical binding), it doesn't really exist and that goes for video, music and books. And yet I also think that if one purchases a CD or physical video and only watches it once, that's also a bit of a waste.
When I was a kid, I had a reel-to-reel tape recorder and I used to make compilation tapes of all my singles (among other things). I would have killed for a device that could hold even a few hundred songs in a small space with very high quality. And yet, I don't consider anything on my smartphone to be "real".
The difference between us and most younger people is that a) they don't need the physical to believe that it exists and b) even if it stops existing, they don't really care - they just move on to the next thing because there's relatively little so distinctive today that it matters.
I think in part, although some people would accuse me of bias, is that in the case of music, most music today is disposable. It's not going to be canon. People collect the entire works of Springsteen, Dylan, the Beatles, the Stones, Pink Floyd, the Eagles, Michael Jackson, Billy Joel, AC/DC, Garth Brooks, Led Zeppelin, Metallica, Mariah Carey, Aerosmith, Guns N'Roses, Elvis Presley, Madonna and others (and I'm not claiming that all of those acts created great music every time - it's just what happened to sell the most), but will the music of today be considered 'canon' and important in even 20 years?
Will music fans still be talking about Drake, Justin Timberlake, Desiigner, The Chainsmokers, Calvin Harris, Sia, Fifth Harmony, Rihanna, Kent Jones, twenty one pilots, P!nk, Lukas Graham, Ariana Grande, etc., in 20 years? I don't think people will care about most of that music in 2 years. Or even in a few weeks.
And in spite of the information available online about artists, I think younger people are really missing out by not having liner notes. I learned so much about music makers (artists, producers, studio musicians, writers, etc.) from reading liner notes. I remember a friend asking me once, "who is this McKinley Morganfield guy?" and me proudly answering back "that's Muddy Waters!"
And even regarding movies, is any one comic book/superhero movie really so different from another? Because of the change in the theatrical business, where 80% of the business is in the first two weeks, the cultural impact of movies has changed. It's not like the days when films like Star Wars played for up to a year. Do any of today's films leave such an impression that the masses HAVE to own one if it's probably always going to be accessible online?
With books it's a bit different. ebooks have not done well and sales have been declining the last few years. That surprises me. IMO, non-graphic books are the one thing that makes complete sense in a virtual form, although even there, when I have part of a series in virtual form and part in physical form, it makes me a bit nuts. And we've already seen the collapse of Barnes & Noble's "Nook" and I have to believe at some point, I'm not going to be able to re-download those titles.
In the U.S. in 2015, physical media constituted only 30% of the music market and that's going to keep declining every year. The music market in total, including downloads, streaming, and Sound Exchange payments is only one-third its former peak size, adjusted for inflation. My advice if one loves physical media is to start buying up anything you want now because there's going to come a point when the labels are going to start deleting most of the physical catalog (which they also did in the 1970's when the IRS ruled that inventory was a taxable asset). Only 122.9 million CDs were sold in the U.S. last year, compared with 942.5 million at the industry's peak. Even back in 2011, 94% of albums that sold at least one copy sold fewer than 1000 copies. Only 0.5% sold more than 10,000 copies. Even with digital downloads, in that year, 7.5 million out of the 8 million digital tracks available sold fewer than 100 downloads.
For me personally, there's nothing that replaces a great music boxed set or a Criterion or other Blu of similar quality. I'd never give up the special editions of Citizen Kane, Seven Samurai, Lawrence of Arabia, Casablanca, etc.
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But you need an internet connection to watch a movie on Roku via a TV. I have many movies downloaded to my laptop and/or ipad via UV. If my wifi goes out, I could watch those movies on those devices, but obviously not on the UV Roku app on the TV. While watching a movie on my IPAD or laptop works great while traveling, at home I definitely prefer my TV. In that case, the BLU comes in handy should the wifi ever go out.
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