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It seems that consumers vote for "convenience" over "fidelity" in most cases. Cassettes could be played in the car, didn't need to be flipped over every 20 minutes, and offered the option of getting a new album taped from a friend for the cost of a blank tape and an hour's time. Improved fidelity over vinyl didn't enter into the equation, although I suppose they did sound better than 8-track, but they were smaller and didn't have that track switch every twenty minutes. CD's offered higher fidelity, but were more robust than vinyl (in terms of cleaning and proper storage), and again could be moved to the car, and walkman as well as the home system. Plus, the ability to instantly skip over a duff track was appealing, particularly as the number of duff tracks seemed to be increasing... MP3's offered much of the convenience of CD's with the added bonus of decreased cost: i.e. nothing with illegal downloads. The average listener doesn't really care about the difference between 128kps and 192, but they do appreciate $0 vs. $15 (or anything). Plus, they take up less space. Some people have suggested that switching to DVD audio would offer an added functionality (5.1 sound possibility, higher sampling rates, etc.) while making it difficult for the average listener to make digital copies (at least for the next year or so), but most car stereos won't play DVD audio, and if people just want to listen on their portable system (iPod or whathave you), then it's not much incentive. TravisH On 1/8/06, Per Boysen <per@boysen.se> wrote: > > > > > > 1) Should I bother to spend any more money on what the world can >already > > get for free? > > > But compressed digital audio files is not the same thing as the CD, is >it? > Are you really shure the "downloaders" was going to buy the record and >now > changed their mind beacuse of those crappy mp3 artifacts on their drives? > ;-) > >