[Harry Lavo]

"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?

I can see where #1 might have relevance to LP sales (but not SACD or DVD-A).
What relevance does #2 have to sales of anything (other than electronics)?