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Sander deWaal wrote:
"Arny Krueger" said:
Most recent RIAA figures show that there has been a significant drop in
retail sales of all physical formats:
http://www.riaa.com/news/newsletter/...midYrStats.pdf
SACD down by 44.6%
DVD-A down by 35.1%
Vinyl down by 32.3%
CD was down by 14.3%
Note that the list of biggest losers was led by SACD, DVD-A and then vinyl.
The traditional CD format, which amounted for about 99% of all sales,
outperformed the rest.
In your glee to report the demise of "Hi-rez" and vinyl, you're
overlooking the fact that less music overall is sold.
Which, in turn, can mean two things: people find their music through
other (illegal?) channels, of they listen less.
Sad, indeed, that you seem to enjoy this.
Last I looked, legal downloads (iTunes, etc) were way up. Clearly this
is the way of the future. Indeed, it seems to be the way of the
present! As I've expressed before here, I'd rather shop in 3D most of
the time, but obviously I'm in the minority.