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Re:Monty Python Puts Free Videos Online, Sells 23,000% More ... by unalone on Saturday January 24, 2009 @09:38AM (#448122)
I don't know if "antiquities" is quite the right word. There's always something to be gained from the existence of the physical format. With albums, for instance, there's the artwork and file quality that you can only achieve with records. (It's why new record players are still being made.) Books can achieve things that ebooks cannot. Same with paintings versus photographs, plays versus movies, DVDs versus digital downloads.

Better to say that the physical medium is no longer the only existing medium. Where they once dominated, now they'll become niche like most mediums do once they're past cutting-edge. But antique suggests something that's over and done with, and incapable of advancing. On the contrary, I think that physical media will continue to innovate.

Re:Monty Python Puts Free Videos Online, Sells 23,000% More ... by rms on Saturday January 24, 2009 @08:41PM (#448603)
Records do you give you room for much higher resolution album artwork, but the best produced CDs sound better than the average record. The average record sounds better than the average post-loudness war CD.

HD-DVD/DVD-Audio sound decidedly better than CD/vinyl assuming you have a sound system high end enough for it to matter. There's nothing inherently better about analog, unless you're talking about copies of the original analog master tapes. (There was a company selling a subscription to a service where you would get copies of analog reel-to-reel tapes)

Re:Monty Python Puts Free Videos Online, Sells 23,000% More ... by alaskamiller on Saturday January 24, 2009 @08:13PM (#448586)
They will no longer be used as a means of distribution but rather products or art to appreciate on its own merits for the subculture of people that still obsess about something like that. Cultural artifacts of antiquities.
Re:Monty Python Puts Free Videos Online, Sells 23,000% More ... by unalone on Sunday January 25, 2009 @06:41PM (#449723)
They said that about records how long ago? And yet every generation, new bands see fit to release records of their stuff.