garym wrote: > definitely....as a teenager I saw concerts by Jimi Hendrix and Janis > Joplin, and they were dead by 1970. Regarding owning. Hard to say why. > I don't feel the need to own many DVDs and prefer netflix (renting). I > do like owning my home, my cars, etc. Maybe I'm just used to owning > music vs renting it. I don't believe that any of these music services > will last more than a decade. Of course there will be replacements for > these services, but even with this, there are always some issues that > pop up in the transition. > > The ironic thing is that this thread has posts concerned with whether SB > products will be available in the future. I would be *more* worried as > to whether my "rented" cloud music would be available in the future in > the format, manner, etc. that I want. This said, I have no doubt that > millions of songs will be available in some format or another in the > cloud forever more. It's the few hundred out of those million that is > not available that would bother me. Even today, there are albums not > available on CD that I'd like to have (well, needle drops have been OK), > there are books I want to read that are currently out of print and only > available at 50 times the cost on ebay, etc.
One other issue that seems to be missed is that not all peoples have access to the streaming services that you guys are talking about. I don't think we have music streaming services at the moment in Australia and if we do it maybe in the embryonic stage. The other advantage with having your own collection is the versatility of how and where you listen to it. The comfort of your home, the portable player, the car, and in Australia, out the back of woop woop (Aussie term - the back of no ware) where there is no internet connection. The internet is a wonderful thing but it isn't available everywhere just yet, if ever. I'm keeping the collection, I don't think I can rely on "rented" music or place my collection in the "Cloud" and suffer some kind of meltdown if I couldn't access music when required. Better to keep ones sanity intact. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Gingernut63's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=48490 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=95885 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
