CNET is reporting that Amazon is planning to launch a reward scheme for CD buyers. When they purchase music in its physical form, they'll also receive a digital copy, which they'll be able to listen to via Amazon's cloud music service. Read More >>
Featured comment by spank86:
"Interesting, but what happens if you buy the music and then sell the CD on?
Is the digital copy a separate product which you can retain or would yo..." More »
Featured comment by jpxdude:
"Optical Media is still much more reliable and cheaper, but slower than USB, I pity those that would rely on USB sticks for archiving!
The problem w..." More »
If CD's aren't dead already, they're dying. After all, plenty of devices being made don't even have optical drives any more. So what do we do with all those old discs we've just got lying around? Artist Bruce Munro has been using them to create mammoth, outdated-media art installations.Read More >>
Featured comment by rickster999:
"Was expecting something more than that, too many leaves and not enough light.
A time laps of the sun moving across this from dawn till dusk would h..." More »
30 years ago today, a game-changing pair of products were announced: Billy Joel's 52nd Street on Compact Disc, and the Sony CDP-101, the first device to be able to play it. And the age of the CD was born. Read More >>
Featured comment by magicguppy:
"Really? My brother had that, he had the first CD player I ever used and that was the first disc I ever played. Mind = blown.
I've got the vinyl and ..." More »
I have a gigantic case full of CDs that I have no idea what to do with. Do I toss them out? Do I save them for my kids? I'm sure other people have the same questions with their dead physical media—CDs, video tapes, DVDs, soon to be Blu-Rays—what's going to happen to all of that? Why not turn it into a giant skull like what artist Noah Scalin did? Read More >>
Maybe the music industry isn't doomed after all, as research points to on-demand services like Spotify and We7 generating up to £696m for the global music industry this year alone, which is a complete rise of 40 per cent. Read More >>
Yes, yes, you read that headline right: according to a brand-spanking new study from North Carolina State University, BitTorrent downloads actually boost music album sales. Concluding that there really isn't a whole lot of evidence that downloads negatively hurt sales, the research finds that more piracy equals more sales. Read More >>
Featured comment by yeoldgreat1:
"Surely music sharing can help some lesser known bands. I've known people that are really into relatively newer bands that I'd never heard of. If the..." More »
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