Put The Compact Disc Out Of Its Misery
from the nice-try.--next! dept
Slate is running an article about the various "new" compact disc technologies that apparently have much higher sound quality, but come with all sorts of annoyances that are preventing anyone from actually caring. Most of these annoyances all have to do with a backwards looking recording industry who is so afraid of people actually (gasp! no!) doing what they want with the music they buy, that they are willing to kill their own new format to prevent copying. This means that the players themselves have no digital output and you can't buy a player that goes in your computer. All in all, the industry seems to be making sure that any of the reasons consumers might actually be drawn to these new formats is destroyed before it's even had a chance.
Thank you for reading this Techdirt post. With so many things competing for everyone’s attention these days, we really appreciate you giving us your time. We work hard every day to put quality content out there for our community.
Techdirt is one of the few remaining truly independent media outlets. We do not have a giant corporation behind us, and we rely heavily on our community to support us, in an age when advertisers are increasingly uninterested in sponsoring small, independent sites — especially a site like ours that is unwilling to pull punches in its reporting and analysis.
While other websites have resorted to paywalls, registration requirements, and increasingly annoying/intrusive advertising, we have always kept Techdirt open and available to anyone. But in order to continue doing so, we need your support. We offer a variety of ways for our readers to support us, from direct donations to special subscriptions and cool merchandise — and every little bit helps. Thank you.
–The Techdirt Team
Reader Comments
Subscribe: RSS
View by: Time | Thread
Sound Projection
There is also sound projection technology, available in prototype form, that can literally cause voices to appear inside people's heads. It would be so cool when police, advertisers, and repressive governments can start driving people literally crazy. Ghetto kids pulling up and forcing people to have rap music go off inside their heads.
[ link to this | view in chronology ]
Re: Sound Projection
[ link to this | view in chronology ]
Re: Sound Projection
Also, MP7 lets you do object-oriented programming, so you could do things like "Change the color of actor's clothes" or "Make chair disappear".
[ link to this | view in chronology ]