Comments on: Physical CD Single + Ringtone = Ringle? http://www.zeropaid.com/news/8994/physical_cd_single__ringtone__ringle/ Sun, 08 Nov 2009 17:06:30 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Burd http://www.zeropaid.com/news/8994/physical_cd_single__ringtone__ringle/#comment-182454 Burd Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000 #comment-182454 Strange as it seems people do still buy CD's. And it's not just older people. I saw a seventeen year old the other day and he had a portable CD pla<x>yer. When I questioned him he said that he preferred having something physical. My son has even found a store that still sells some current music on vinyl! (I didn't even know they still made vinyl recordings!) As a teacher I try to get my students to turn in their papers electronically. And I correct them electronically as attachments to e-mail. But they still print them out! Even my notes which are on line always available...they print them out! And these are young kids. Physical media is going to die a slow death. It's human nature to have something physical in your hand. (Hell an I-pod itself is a physical thing even though they're getting smaller and smaller.) This might not be such a bad idea. But lower the damn price!! Strange as it seems people do still buy CD’s. And it’s not just older people. I saw a seventeen year old the other day and he had a portable CD player. When I questioned him he said that he preferred having something physical. My son has even found a store that still sells some current music on vinyl! (I didn’t even know they still made vinyl recordings!)

As a teacher I try to get my students to turn in their papers electronically. And I correct them electronically as attachments to e-mail.
But they still print them out! Even my notes which are on line always available…they print them out! And these are young kids. Physical media is going to die a slow death. It’s human nature to have something physical in your hand. (Hell an I-pod itself is a physical thing even though they’re getting smaller and smaller.)

This might not be such a bad idea. But lower the damn price!!

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