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02-03-2018, 04:01 AM | #1 |
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Hm, I still buy CDs...I just like having physical copies of things. If your music player or computer or whatever you use for your digital media conks out on you, at least you have the originals to listen to. I also like having cd jacket with the music information and all that stuff for some reason.
I don't think that's going to die out here in Japan, though anytime soon. They still have movie rental shops and CD rentals are a thing here. Ironically, it's still illegal for shops to rent out video games here to my knowledge...thanks Nintendo. >_> Last edited by ssjup81; 02-03-2018 at 04:09 AM. |
02-03-2018, 04:10 AM | #2 |
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Man, I just bought a new CD a month ago.
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02-03-2018, 04:24 AM | #3 | |
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Same with pics you took from your camera and phone. Do people still print ALL of them and put in album books? Nope. You'd print only the necessary ones and the rest goes into the hard drives. Digital is the future indeed. |
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02-03-2018, 05:02 AM | #4 |
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I haven't bought many CDs in my life. By the time I got really interested in music, youtube was already around. And nowadays with services like Spotify, I'm even less interested in buying CDs.
Some people collect CDs, though. Many metalheads I've talked to collect CDs and vinyls. So clearly there's still a lot of market for them. |
02-03-2018, 10:57 AM | #5 |
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It's probably worth pointing out that... well, you know what Best Buy will also stop selling in about one or two years? Everything.
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02-03-2018, 11:00 AM | #6 |
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CD's still do OK for artists mainly aimed at older audiences.
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02-03-2018, 11:16 AM | #7 |
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That's a shame. It's been years since I bought one, so I guess it's understandable if many aren't buying, but at the same time, if there's something I really want to own I like having an official hard copy. (Not that those stores are the only source or that they have any say in what gets a hard copy produced of not.)
As if digital is even much cheaper though, right... Digital (be is music, in-game purchases, or whatever) kind of annoys me though in regard to it being such easy money for the seller when it costs them nothing to produce other than the original digital file itself. As far as music goes, if digital, forget it, I'll just fave it for free on YouTube. |
02-03-2018, 11:17 AM | #8 |
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If you go to a concert, it's still fun to buy a CD and get it signed by the artist(s).
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02-03-2018, 12:21 PM | #9 |
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I remember when people had to trash their VHS collections when DVD took off. Now people are looking to get rid of all their DVD collections.
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Netflix quality is good enough and better for them. Videophiles are feeling the same thing audiophiles have for 18 years now. With better music formats people preferred CDs, the Super CD and whatever formats failed in favor to sh-tty quality MP3s. Even today people prefer to listen from youtube than get uncompressed music files, hell it's even difficult to torrent uncompressed files because people prefer the compressed files that take less HDD space on the computers. Quote:
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Re: Piracy... Hell yeah, homie. I havent even watched television since Season 3 of Smallville once I figured out how to torrent. TV with no commercials and on my own time? Yes, please! And yeah, tons of niche shows would be lost to the ages by now had it not been for pirates. Quote:
As for music... I'd love to collect Vinyl releases strictly for their large art. But digital will always be my preferred method, so there's no real incentive outside their packaging for me. |
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02-06-2018, 08:54 AM | #12 |
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Not surprising considering everyone either buys them digitally or they're all on Pandora/Spotify/another avenue nowadays
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02-06-2018, 09:02 AM | #13 |
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As diehard "never digital" as I am, still buying print books and DVDs, I can't remember the last time I bought a CD. 100% digital for my music... mostly YouTube streaming at work or Pandora at home.
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02-06-2018, 12:51 PM | #14 | |
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I also still appreciate special features, and the ones I've seen on the recent titles I've bought and rented are rather neat. So I still hope titles continue to get them for a long time. I just remembered that I bought a CD in 2015, but it was to replace an album I once owned on cassette that got rid of it a while ago. I started selling off my cassettes in 2003 on Amazon, and I was surprised that there were people who wanted them. Then I decided to sell off the whole lot of what I had remaining on eBay, and someone actually took them off of my hands. |
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02-06-2018, 01:08 PM | #16 |
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That's crazy to me. You're telling me you can't tell the difference between a resolution of 640 x 480 and a resolution of 1920 x 1080? Maybe on a small, old tube-style TV (or maybe if the blu-rays you're watching are only 720p, which is 1280 x 720)... but c'mon. It is a staggering difference.
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