"Harry Lavo" wrote in message
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"Arny Krueger" wrote in message
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"Harry Lavo" wrote in message
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"Arny Krueger" wrote in message
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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.
And you conclude from this.....what?
It looks very much like those well-known emperor's clothes labelled
DVD-A, SACD and vinyl have been found out by more and more of the
music-loving public.
Or perhaps that public has shifted to online buying because of much better
selection, and the remaining B&M stores are dropping their stock.
The major technological changes that relate to LP in the last year or so
include:
(1) Dance music manipulation devices that don't need a vinyl LP to
operate.
Okay
(2) More and more people seem to be digitizing LPs.
Your basis for statement #2?
Since I used the word seem, this could be nothing more than a perception of
mine. However there is a factual basis for this - the frequency of questions
about digitzing vinyl posted and Usenet, the profusion of web pages about
it, the number of products that facilitate it, conversations with people in
real life, etc.
I can see where #1 might have relevance to LP sales (but not SACD or
DVD-A).
Good.
What relevance does #2 have to sales of anything (other than electronics)?
It's quite a bit easier to exchange digital copies of LPs than copy them by
other means...