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  1. Originally posted by KieranU2:[..]

    Well, maybe. Vinyl records are nostalgic, yes, but people use them for the immense sound quality that comes out of them. Apparently vinyl records are on the rise again, but are only slowly rising. CDs are dropping massively (as are digital downloads as a matter of fact) and are making way for illegal downloads, unfortunately.

    I cannot see CDs coming back after going obsolete, I just can't. Unless there is some kind of boycott by artists and fans or something.

    The only thing hard copy distributors have over digital downloads at the moment is the tangible object. I hope that the "tangibility" will not be going anywhere any time soon but the old CD format will have to go. Super audio CD's or Audio DVD's will hopefully come into play some time soon and finally catch on. As of right now we are in the strange situation where people can actually get higher quality audio via piracy! 24 bit 192 KHz FLAC's straight from the studio are floating around and CD'd simply cant match that. I really hope the record labels stop moaning about piracy and do something to update their primitive standards.

    Me? I'll stick to Vinyl wherever I can.

    OT: 2 days until the 8 bonus tracks.
  3. Originally posted by LikeASong:[..]

    While I mostly agree with the rest of your post, I believe you slip up there. There is NO WAY that the trillions of CDs ever sold worldwide become suddenly obsolete. No way, dude.



    I never said that the cds already made would be obsolete. I said the industry is going to stop making them in the next 2-10 years. WE should be able to play our cds for the rest of our lives. Once there is a fool proof easy way to share/burn lossless recordings, it will be even faster. I don't know what FLAC actually stands for, but I know it is not a Latin word for "Easy to use format and transfer files even for a dummy in seconds."

    The budget section for cds has been getting bigger and bigger. Many high profile artist's cds sitting around for 4.99. Although U2's CD prices have not gone down much, every single Best Buy I have been to has a pretty big supply of the Boy, October, War, and JT remasters just sitting there.

    Cd sales are declining at an incredible rapid pace. In the USA, there are only a few independent shops left, many cities do not have one. There are only a handful of Big Chain places that even sell them:

    Best Buy, Wal Mart, K Mart, Target, Borders, FYE, and....uh....uh....ummm...yeah

    There are probably less than 10 retail outlets that even sell Cds on a huge national scale. Amazon and Ebay have assumed part of that business, but 10 years ago, Ebay and Amazon were a haven for new product...now Ebay and Amazon are much more in the used market.

    Just thinking about it, in 1985, most major malls had 2 or even 3 music stores. Now some don't have one. Sears, and most department stores had a music department...now most don't, and maybe a few book stores like Borders have a small music section.

    The complete death of the cd is probably more than 10 years away, but the process is starting. As each day passes, some other retailer will no longer sell them.

    Edit: To tie in to the topic: Since the CD is a dying format, my earlier point was that U22 should have not been based on a song limit, but the size limit of the CD, and just been called U2 360 Live, 2 CDs that took advantage of the full capacity of CDs, making it attractive as possible for this declining format.
  5. Is it just me, or is the audiosound of the u22 songs much better than all the live dvd's from u2.
  6. ^^ was thinking the same thing whilst listening to UC today... Much more superior than the Rose Bowl DVD that's for sure! I think because they've mixed in a lot of audience noise it adds a little something to the overall audio quality and 'feel' of the tracks. That's one thing that the Rose Bowl DVD did lack they sound a lot more 'raw' and fresh from the soundboard, and haven't been through the overproduction process that seems to be from the DVD sound... that's what it sounds like imo though.. others could feel different..

  7. Speaking only in terms of sound quality... Better than Rose Bowl 09 and Chicago 05 for sure. And maybe Mexico 97 too, I never really dug the sound of it (although the DVD is mindblowing as a whole). But U22 ain't better than Sydney and Slane, nor probably Boston and Paris as well. Those are superb excellent audio recordings, U22 is just excellent... from what we've heard so far.
  8. Where does Milan '05 fit in there?

    Also, is the production on U2.communication better than that of the two DVD's (Chicago and Milan) the songs were taken from?
  9. With regards to Mexico, I've always been of the opinion that Hasta La Vista is of better quality that the DVD.
  10. Originally posted by iTim:With regards to Mexico, I've always been of the opinion that Hasta La Vista is of better quality that the DVD.

    Make that 2 of us.
  11. btw, Edge's solo on OTH
  12. Originally posted by iTim:With regards to Mexico, I've always been of the opinion that Hasta La Vista is of better quality that the DVD.

    I always thought that too.
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