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  6. HD DVD R.I.P.

    in Audio Talk

    Posted

    I don't want to derail the thread, but, frankly, I am not really interested in wich format won the war. I think that the future will be in broad band downloading, so all this is a whortless efforts and a waste of money for something that will be wiped off in the next, let's say three, four years?

    My two cents.

    Agreed...but...downloads will be in HD. I'm downloading a 1080p rental tonight on my Apple TV as a matter of fact.

    However, nothing like watching a Blu-Ray disc! Can't be beat!

    The fact about movies, compared to music, is that I don't care owning them, just watching them. I mean that you don't watch ten times per year "Citizen Cane" or "La Femme d'à cote ". So I rent DVD's at local store or I go to theaters. As a matter of fact, we will see very few Blue-Ray discs at local video rentals, or Blockbusters, in the meantime the downloading will get the market. Because for the majors will be cheaper to put online HD movies, rather then producing the same title in a new physical format.

    I'd love to have all that classic movies of Criterion readily available like iTunes. I don't really need to built a physical collection of movies, unless I want to study some of them shot by shot, in that case a DVD, or even an old VHS, can do the trick.

    Netflix rents the extended resolution formats, AFAIK. Never done it, since I am only lo-fi regular DVD-compatible here.

  8. Current trend: selling original CDs but keeping the mp3s

    in Miscellaneous Music

    Posted

    The CD is what gives you your legal license to make *and* possess a copy of the music contained on it. If you sell the CD, you no longer have the legal license - it transfers with ownership of the cd. This seems self-obvious to me.

    I'm not sure how to spell this out any more than that.

    What "seems obvious" is not "law." WHERE specifically is this addressed, or does it just seem illegal to you because you think it should be?

    It is explicitly stated on this Elgar compilation on my desk:

    "All rights of the producer and of the owner of this work reproduced reserved. Unauthorised copying, hiring, lending, public performance and broadcasting of this record prohibited."

  10. Current trend: selling original CDs but keeping the mp3s

    in Miscellaneous Music

    Posted

    My feeling is the same as Bev's. Lately, I've been going thru a serious reconsideration of all the CDs I have to see which ones still trigger something in me; a lot of them I bought because of the mentality of "gotta have 'em all" or "get it now before it goes OOP" or "this is a classic and I should really have it in my collection." In all three cases, those discs rarely if ever get listened to.

    Makes me wish I'd discovered Rhapsody a few months ago instead of just now; would've saved me about $300. I like it that for $13 a month, I can listen to any album I want as many times as I want. So now, a whole bunch of albums that were on my wish list have either been taken off (they weren't as good as I thought they would be) or will be listened to at some point, and if I like it then I might go get the CD.

    I have no intention of selling my CDs if I ever save them to a hard drive of some sort. Apparently these folks who are doing so have never heard of a hard drive crash. I do have an external hard drive that keeps my source copies for music files I listen to in the car or on the computer at work, but I'm not getting rid of the original CDs.

    I am with Big Al on this one -- I am soon to convert my eMusic subscription into a Rhapsody subscription. I like that they have a 25-free plays each month option, but I wish they had an in-between level -- like 100 for $7.99 or something...

  11. Biber

    in Classical Discussion

    Posted

    If anyone is in Mpls this Sunday, Leah Gale Nelson will be performing some of the Biber material. The wife and I will be there, for sure. :rhappy:

    Sunday, February 17, 2008 at 1:30pm (note this start time!)

    in concert with The Rose Ensemble

    selections from the (Sorrowful) Mystery Sonatas of H.I.F. Biber

    Agony in the Garden (No. VI) and the Crucifixion (No. X)

    with Dongsok Shin, organ

    The Basilica of St. Mary, St. Joseph Chapel

    Hennepin Avenue between 16th & 17th Streets

    Admission is Free

  12. Current trend: selling original CDs but keeping the mp3s

    in Miscellaneous Music

    Posted

    One of the wife's coworker's husbands is doing this. My boss did it as well. Nuts.

    I find myself buying discs of things that I downloaded from emusic. I rather like the reasonable permanence of the CD or LP.

    I agree with 7/4, seems like an awful lot of work to keep it all backed up properly.

    I, too, think it is interesting that this does not often come up in conversations of copyright.

  18. Compilations and Samplers

    in Miscellaneous Music

    Posted

    Have disliked them for many years but have to admit that at age 12 there several compliations that were mind-openers for me -- an EmArcy intro to jazz 12-inch LP, "Jazz of Two Decades," a Jazztone Society 10-inch, and two Columbia's -- "I Like Jazz" and another one whose title I forget. What happened to me then, and it could happen to anyone in that you know almost nothing stage, is that 1) you have no filter except your own naive taste, and 2) you tend to accept that whatever they've put out in that form is really central and good. So for instance, on the EmArcy there was Charlie Ventura's "East of Suez" with a wordless vocal by Jackie and Roy, which sounded so incredibly weird to me in part because it was damn weird and I didn't have enough background to know that it was -- which again made it seem even weirder. Sarah's "Shulie-A-Bop" was also on that one and seemed pretty weird in its incredible plasticity of phrasing and timbre, and the hypnotic casualness with which she addressed each member of her trio: "Crazy Joe Benjamin" --ha!), but not nearly as weird as "East of Suez." That was like reading your first science fiction story or horror story without knowing that there were such things as science fiction or horror stories. On the other hand, there were some absolute classics on those discs; the Jazztone had Norvo's "Congo Blues" with Bird and Diz, the second Columbia had Armstong's "Savoy Blues" and Ellington's "The Sergeant Was Shy." (The latter is still my favorite Ellington recording; can't argue that is the best, I just love it.) The Jazztone also had a corruscating Pee Wee Russell stop-time blues solo, "Stuyvesant Blues" with Max Kaminsky, which kind of scared me because of its naked intensity and because I had no idea a clarinet could sound like that.

    Here's what was on "I Like Jazz:"

    http://mfhorn.net/discography/compelations...ike%20Jazz.html

    Can't find info on the others, but there was more than one Jazztone Society sampler. The one that I can find info on is not the one I heard back then.

    I think it is worth acknowledging the difference between a multiple-artist compilation, and a single artist compilation. My Jamaican music collection consists largely of multi-artist comps, and several of my rock/pop/country discs are single-artist comps.

    A Jazztone 10" sampler opened my eyes wider to the world of pre-hard bop jazz. There is one listed on eBay right now.

    In jazz, I prefer to have the full, original albums for the most part. Unless, of course, the recordings preceded the LP era.

  21. BMG Sale Corner

    in Miscellaneous Music

    Posted

    FYI, the new version of Billie Holiday's Lady Sings the Blues is not in the nice digipack like the rest of the most recent batch of Impulse! reissues. It is a moderately chintzy version in a jewel case, retaining some of the new design of the recent batch.

  24. Today's New Age Music is Crap

    in Miscellaneous Music

    Posted

    I know the host of Echoes -- back in the day he was into King Crimson, Magma, and all of this heavy prog stuff. His personal musical tastes veer outside of the occasionally soporific material on the show.

    However, I have heard things like Pat Metheney, some of the rougher John Fahey-inspired guitar fingerpickers, and the French electronica duo Air on the show.

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