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I just received an email this morning notifying me that Millinniata 25GB BD blanks are now available and shipping. I intend to Xfer some of my most precious recordings/photos. At $4.50 per in a package of 15, that's not bad. About 18 cents/GB plus shipping. joe salerno On 5/16/2014 6:57 AM, Music Hunter wrote: > Hi Tom & friends, > > > > Is there any evidence pointing to that happening? > > > > I am still enjoying CDs obtained when CDs were first introduced in the early > '80's with no sign of self-degrading in over 30 years. I'm trying to think > of what other products we have that have that still work as well as they did > when brand new. > > > > Talk about value... > > > > Jay > > > > Your search for sound & video ends here! > > Jay Sonin, General Manager > Music Hunter Distributing Company > 4880 North Citation Drive, Suite # 101 > Delray Beach, Florida 33445-6552 > [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> > 561-450-7152 > > > > From: Stephen Thomson Moore [mailto:[log in to unmask]] > Sent: Friday, May 16, 2014 7:33 AM > To: Wagstaff, D John; Edmonds, Amy; [log in to unmask] > Subject: Re: [MLA-L] RE: the end of the CD and DVD (and the CD and DVD > player)? > > > > Dear all, > > > > Another concern with the end of the CD and DVD seems to be that our immense > collections of Cds will self-degrade and be nothing more than shiny discs in > a few short years. What about that? > > > > Best, Tom Moore > > FIU > > > > > > > > From: <Wagstaff>, D John <[log in to unmask]> > Reply-To: "Wagstaff, D John" <[log in to unmask]> > Date: Thursday, May 15, 2014 5:54 PM > To: "Edmonds, Amy" <[log in to unmask]>, "[log in to unmask]" > <[log in to unmask]> > Subject: [MLA-L] RE: the end of the CD and DVD (and the CD and DVD player)? > > > > I think maybe the issue is that, once we reach a tipping point with e-books, > the publishers might decide to move to an I-Tunes account-type distribution > model, i.e. a "one individual/one account, no libraries need apply thank you > very much have a nice day but get lost". We're already seeing this with some > textbooks, after all. Print surrogates will then become impossible to > obtain, libraries are cut out of the equation, and first-sale doctrine is > sacrificed to licensing agreements. > > > > I don't write this in a "the-publisher-is-the-enemy" spirit, they clearly > are only trying to make money and keep their businesses afloat, and arguably > if the roles were reversed we'd be doing the same. But I suspect that that's > definitely the commercial motivation behind the push towards e-books. > > > > John > > > > > > John Wagstaff > > Head, Music & Performing Arts Library > > Interim Head, Literatures and Languages Library > > University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign > > 1114 W. Nevada Street > > Urbana IL61801 > > Tel. 217-244-4070 > > e-mail: [log in to unmask] > > > > > > > > From: Edmonds, Amy [mailto:[log in to unmask]] > Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2014 4:40 PM > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: [MLA-L] RE: the end of the CD and DVD (and the CD and DVD player)? > > > > The same thing that makes it easy to crank out e-books makes it easy to > publish in paper! Why are they whining? > > > > I do read quite a bit on my kindle but for anything that I will be working > with intellectually, I have to be able to put my sticky notes in it (shhh!) > and flip through the pages at will for the bits that I will recognize > visually but can't remember well enough to do a good search on a device. > > > > From: Wagstaff, D John [mailto:[log in to unmask]] > Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2014 5:09 PM > To: Stephen Thomson Moore; [log in to unmask] > Subject: [MLA-L] RE: the end of the CD and DVD (and the CD and DVD player)? > > > > To answer this question I'd pose another, which is: For how many years have > we been seeing magazines with the question "Is this the year of the e-book?" > on their cover? (my answer: at least 15, and my answer is always "no"). In > spite of publishers really, really wanting to push e-books, we're still a > long way from having anything like a decent amount of e-books to offer in > the performing arts. > > > > IMHO. > > > > John > > > > From: Stephen Thomson Moore [mailto:[log in to unmask]] > Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2014 7:09 AM > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: [MLA-L] the end of the CD and DVD (and the CD and DVD player)? > > > > Dear CW, > > > > Have you all seen any responsible prognostication on what the time frame > might be for the end of CD as a commercial format for music, and of the DVD > as a commercial format for video? Do you individually have any wise words in > this regard? I already heard in 1995 that the CD would soon be history (not > yet). > > > > Inquiringly, Tom Moore > > FIU > > > > > -- Joe Salerno