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skywake

@dumedum
Way to ignore 3/4 of my post so you could make an anecdotal observation and point to a google search that came up with four year old articles about the demise of DVD. Obviously everyone is pirating so the market will shrink 'till it's just netflix. Right? Because obviously that statistic I found that showed more revenue in physical sales than in streaming services is completely meaningless because you have a hunch. Last I checked Netflix and iTunes were not brand new services, they've been rattling around for about a decade now give or take. Given it has been that long why isn't physical media already dead? After this amount of time in the tape vs CD battle CDs were outselling tapes something like 3:1. For disks vs digital it's 1:1.

Yes, video rental of physical media is dying. That's obvious. It's dying faster in the US than anywhere else. If you are the sort of person who does the whole "weekend family movie night" thing then piracy or online rentals make sense. Also as it is you can go to the shop and buy a movie for $10AU or less and not the really crap ones either. In that sort of world the hastle of video rental doesn't make sense for $2.50/week. Either way though there is still growth in the market at large despite the squeeze of digital sales and services.

There's also the fact that conventional wisdom of trends tends to be overly dramatic. The number of mobile broadband subscribers in Australia recently overtook the number of fixed line subscribers for example. This lead to dramatic articles about how mobile was going to make fixed line services obsolete. A view which conveniently dovetailed with some of the conventional wisdoms. This was despite the fact that some 90% of data consumed was on fixed networks and growing. Also the fact that fixed line subscriptions continue to grow just at a slower rate to the much newer shinier mobile services.

For all of these things that are apparently dead they're doing a fantastic job of sticking around.

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dumedum

@skywake - lol you seem to think that we are having some sort of argument. I don't know why. I'm not going to argue with someone that thinks there is a future for physical media. I don't know when is the last time someone went to a shop to buy a freaking CD or movie. Its not rentals. Most shops like this went bankrupt around the globe. Thats your fact. Even some shops selling books wemt bankrupt like Borders. But hey whatever suits you.

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... Why didn't this thread die when the question of the thread was answered with the first reply?

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skywake

dumedum wrote:

@skywake - lol you seem to think that we are having some sort of argument. I don't know why. I'm not going to argue with someone that thinks there is a future for physical media. I don't know when is the last time someone went to a shop to buy a freaking CD or movie. Its not rentals. Most shops like this went bankrupt around the globe. Thats your fact. Even some shops selling books wemt bankrupt like Borders. But hey whatever suits you.

It ain't:
http://au.finance.yahoo.com/echarts?s=JBH.AX#symbol=jbh.ax;ra...

As for when someone last went to the shop to buy a CD or movie. Likely right now given how packed JBs always is. Me personally? I suppose November last year. They had a sale so I grabbed a couple of CDs from Queens of the Stone Age and Tame Impala. Before that Sigur Ros' new album along with QOTSA, Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Deerhunter, The Flaming Lips, My Bloody Valentine this year. I think my sister grabbed all of the Harry Potters on Blu-Ray this year because those were like $10 each along with Adele, Florence and the Machine or whatever it is she's into. I believe my Dad grabbed Cowboys vs Aliens and Planet of the Apes and some other crap. I got Wreck it Ralph and I believe Django Unchained was this year. I know my brother got the new Pearl Jam album but also got Monsters University for my Niece.

I don't know what my neighbours and friends got, I don't tend to ask. Is that enough anecdotal evidence or do you need photos or something?

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oh, and before you go all "Australian broadband sucks" on me here's a little fact. We all (i.e. my example peoples) have 8Mbps down at least and usually something like 9Mbps down plus. Downloading isn't an issue and we all know where to go if you know what I mean. Also worth noting that Australia is the piracy capital of the world based on various statistics. We well and truly punch above our weight in that regard. Plus we got Spotify about one and a half years ago and since then I've actually found myself buying more music not less. And yes I know me listing stuffs I got is anecdotal nonsense but that's what you demanded. So there you go.

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MikeLove

@dumedum

CD sales have dropped dramatically because most everyone listens to mp3's now, but bluray and DVD sales are still strong, and still take up a large portion of stores like BestBuy and online retailers like Amazon. Just because you are content with watching 700MB films in .divx format on your laptop, doesn't mean most people still don't enjoy watching a bluray on their 50"+ TV at home.

MikeLove

MikeLove

@skywake

What QOTSA album you get? ...Like Clockwork? Not my fave Queens album (that would be either Era Vulgaris or Lullabies), but definitely my pick for album of the year!

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skywake

@JohnRedcorn
Yeah, cams especially. I know people who download cams and are happy to watch them. Then brag about how fantastic they are for being able to watch a movie before its out. I don't like to spoil the experience like that.

Oh and yeah, Like Clockwork. I think it's probably my album of the year also although Sigur Ros' Kveikur was pretty damn good and Ubisoft used it to promote AC4. Wanting to pick up The Drones' new album but that might be because they're probably the most Australian band I've heard ever. My favourite QOTSA album would be Songs for the Deaf but that's mostly because it was basically my personal soundtrack to High School.

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OptometristLime

banacheck wrote:

Disks for media especially movies died a long time ago.

Yes Blu-Ray & Music CD's died off that long ago that most places have forgot that there are still selling them, and the next Blu-Ray format which is coming out 2015/16 died off how long ago? and what year are we in again 2020.

Thank you.

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dumedum

JohnRedcorn wrote:

@dumedum

CD sales have dropped dramatically because most everyone listens to mp3's now, but bluray and DVD sales are still strong, and still take up a large portion of stores like BestBuy and online retailers like Amazon. Just because you are content with watching 700MB films in .divx format on your laptop, doesn't mean most people still don't enjoy watching a bluray on their 50"+ TV at home.

Good at least we got the music nonsense out of the way. That's progress lol . why are you limiting yourself to 700mb . you can easily download the blu ray format. That's what people do in most parts of the world.

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Tasuki

You know I a funny thing happened tonight to me that goes along with this. My brother is looking for a hard to find CD and I tried to name some brick and mortar stores that sell CDs around our town all I came up with is

Target
Kmart
Walmart
Dimple Records (A local place)
Fry's Electronics
Best Buy
Barnes and Nobles

and that's all I can think of. So many places that I went to as a kid to buy CD's like Tower Records and Sam Goody's are now gone. Other then those places I mentioned I can't think of anyone else that carries CDs.

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skywake

@Tasuki
Yeah, most of the tiny places around here went but I think that was about half iTunes and half bigger retailers giving better prices. Of the five or so places I used to go to look for music in the early-to-mid 2000s about three still exist and there's one new one that popped up. So I don't know what that says. The new ones have been more about general entertainment than just CDs, the just CD guys always charged 3x the RRP anyways. So no loss there.

dumedum wrote:

Good at least we got the music nonsense out of the way. That's progress lol .

Actually no we didn't because it's still a large part of the market. Your original point was that it was dead and nobody ever goes to a shop to buy any physical media. The fact that people don't tend to listen to CDs anymore and do enjoy services like Pandora and Spotify doesn't mean it's dead. The fact that physical is now only about 50% of the market doesn't mean it's dead. That means that it's still about half of the market. I personally still buy CDs and am not alone in that. First thing I do when I get home is rip it and then put it on the shelf. So I am listening to an mp3 but I didn't buy an mp3. I brought a CD and got a CD as well as an mp3 and something to sit on my shelf.

Movies it's even less of a thing. Just because you think piracy is the be all and end all doesn't mean others prefer to pay for the content they consume. To support the artists and studios that produce content that they enjoy. The way I see it these online services both legal and not are the all-you-can-eat buffet of media. You go out and you sample stuffs. When you find something you really like you go out and get it whether it be digital or not. And frankly the digital options, especially for movies, are less flexible than the boring old disk options. You can drop in at your local shops and support that artist by getting it, browse the other shiny stuffs and then give a couple of bucks to the guys out the front with the sausage sizzle.

What's so crazy about that? You're missing out man

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Some playlists: Top All Time Songs, Top Last Year
"Don't stir the pot" is a nice way of saying "they're too dumb to reason with"

skywake

Actually to prove my point about this still being a thing even further there's a new JBHiFi catalogue out. Nine pages of it is all about PC and office stuffs, beginning of the year ect, four pages are about audio gear, two pages for other gadgets like fitness watches, cameras and GPS, three pages for TVs and a page of phones. Then there's three pages for movies, a page of CDs and a page of games. Then you walk into their shop and it's about the same sort of focus. Depends on the shop, they all do it differently, but it's usually about the same. Some are 80% media and some are closer to 25% media depending on the size of the shop and where they are. The city one is pretty much just CDs and movies with a small gadget section.

These guys are one of the most consistently profitable retailers in our country. If they can get away with still stocking CDs, DVDs and Blu-Rays and even giving them prominence then physical media isn't dead. Especially given that Australians are in studies as the early adopters and pirates of the world.

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"Don't stir the pot" is a nice way of saying "they're too dumb to reason with"

dumedum

OK fine. You convinced me. Cool.

@Tasuki yep, Tower Records is the blockbuster of music. It had like 200 branches where I came from and it crushed when mp3 players (and internet piracy) became strong.

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skywake

@dumedum
Ok, next time I'll just remember that your experience reflects everyone experience and is final. No reason to disagree because when you say something is dead then it must be so.

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"Don't stir the pot" is a nice way of saying "they're too dumb to reason with"

dumedum

@skywake - I said that I agree with you, you convinced me. Relax.

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Tasuki

dumedum wrote:

@Tasuki yep, Tower Records is the blockbuster of music. It had like 200 branches where I came from and it crushed when mp3 players (and internet piracy) became strong.

Yeah I mainly went to them during the Christmas season cause they always had awesome sales then. I went to the original Tower Store a few weeks ago which is now a Goodwill. Kinda sad going in there.

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