There was almost a footnote in Sound & Vision a couple months ago that suggested the falloff in CD sales could be attributed to the incredible rise in sales of DVD's and to my way of thinking this is more logical than than anything else.
The disc format is one thing making that very believable to my way of thinking. The entertainment industry finally has a product people will buy rather than rent which they have always wanted. I believe that has bitten them in the butt. Rather than people spending $15 on a CD to satisfy some possession instinct and maybe $4.00 on a rental of a tape they are spending $25 on a DVD. CD's may, in some quarters, be seen as old hat.
We only have so much time and money to spend on entertainment product in general.
I would love to see a study sponsored by a truly independent entity seeing where they publics' home entertainment time and dollar is now going. At this point the record industry division of the home entertainment industry seems to be blowing smoke up the lawmakers butts to my way of thinking.
The music industry might start suing the DVD industry, Internet service providers, George Bush for having a war that people can watch, satellite and cable companies for providing alternative paid entertainment, and a host of other industries and at least be screaming at the right people for a
change.
Oh yeah, I've never file swapped via the net any Mp3 or the like. I'm not keen on the quality of MP3s.
This has probably been mentioned in some other thread but I thought I'd put my 2 cents in just the same.
Larry