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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.
I will accept your silence as an acknowledgment of correctness. A simple
okay as i gave you below would have been appropriate.
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 "seem" to recall that you had a go-to-pieces over this kind of reasoning
when it came to Scotts assertion that the market for Audiophile LP's and
good turntables was in its best shape in years.
Just idle speculation on Harry's part. Not even a few words quoted.
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...
A pretty big stretch, Arny, as a reason for a decline in LP sales. Far
thinner than *I* would ever want to claim as *my* logic, especially since
its shakiness stands on the shoulders of an already shaky assumption (see
five paragraphs above).
Yup Harry, dismiss what you can't answer.