At 10/12/05 04:41 PM, Erkie wrote:
^ Owned.
Haha.
Well put, friend, well put.
The one thing I do agree with, is what he said about traditional music, it'd certainly be a nice evolutionary component to add to the artist's abilities, but it could easily be taken advantage of.
Indeed. Kinda how back in the day when artists of a peticular genre all of a sudden busted out a Disco album just because it was popular. Jump on the good ol' bandwagon.
But seriously, what doesn't get taken advantage of? What about the conversion from Mono to Stereo? There was probably this exact conversation going on like "BAH! two channels! Who the hell would want to have that? nothing supports it!!"......Yet. Now...who the fuck makes audio in mono?
Now, for many reasons, everything is all weird...
Now it's "Bahh! Surround Sound!? For music? Movies are different!! Seriously! Who the hell would want to listen to JUST MUSIC on only SPECIFIC DEVICES?"
There are a couple formats that have been out for the past couple of years. I'm pretty sure none of you guys have even heard of them. It's DVD-Audio and Super Audio CD (SACD).
...Anyone?
Just like CD format surpassed vinyl, cassette, and the BELOVED 8-track, MiniDisc, digital audio tape, and MP3s are trying to rid of CD format. But makes DVD-Audio and SACD so much better is that both of them have awesome multichannel sound, and you can store a grip of information. And like I said, they've been around for 2 YEARS!
It's really due all of us having little incentive to upgrade our CD collections or fuck around with new expensive players, speakers, etc.. Not only that but people havn't even heard of this shit.
The DVD-Audio discs only work in special DVD players because they have a better sound that DVD-Video audio. But it is still better than CD Quality.
Shit man, if I were a well known artist (say, Britney Spears) I'd be masturbating all day...But other than that, I'd get an aportion, but other than that, I would jsut record my music onto DVD-Video, with no video, so it would be compatible with all DVD players. GENIOUS!! Especially the aportion part...
All jokes aside...
First their was Mono, then their was stereo, and now we are in the process of going to surround sound. After surround sound we'll plug in a bike helmet to our Ipod Femto*. It'll be one big metal sheet excreeting sound waves.
* = if you didn't get that, nano is a prefix for billionth, and femto is a prefix for quadrillionth, meaning it will be small as fuck...n00b.