Follow-Up
A cost-benefit analysis of DVDs vs Music CDs.
A DVD Movie, on average, will provide you with the movie you look to purchase (sometimes in both widescreen and full screen--though wide is the way to go), director commentary, deleted scenes, sometimes music videos, not to mention subtitles in various languages, the original theatrical trailer and multiple listening options. Some special editions even provide alternate endings, making-of's, storyboards and more! We're talking hooours of media to satiate every aching desire to know more about the movie.
A Music CD... (forgive me if I mess up here, I've only ever bought one -- and that was a soundtrack not produced by a single artist/group) provides you with upwards of 20 songs (if you're lucky), and you will be lucky if 4 of them are enjoyable. Sometimes you get a music video with it.. but really, all that is, is the performer dancing, and lip syncing to the song anyway -- And usually that's maybe one or two songs... the songs you bought the CD for in the first place! Total entertainment time: the 10 minutes of good songs on the disc... multiplied by the 10 times you listen to those two-four songs before they get old.
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Another slam on the RIAA for not producing quantity and quality in their "stuff." Then marking up the price to "similar" media (eg. DVDs). Further, if they were to give contracts to talented people, who wouldn't need hours of tweaking with their voices in the studio to be recordable, the cost would be less. But, who cares anyway, it'd just make the profit margin bigger, because they can't lower the cost of CDs... "all the people committing piracy make it so we have to charge more to recoup our losses!" Yeah..that's the ticket!
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ps. The CD was D2: The Mighty Ducks ($11.97 New) -- also available on E-Bay. (2.95 + S&H Used)
It cost me $12.99 from Circuit City (at the time, most likely 8-9 years ago), and I bought it for: "We Will Rock You," "We are the Champions," "The Zamboni Song," "Wild Thing," "Rock and Roll Part II," "Mr. Big Stuff," "Whoop! There it is!" "Rock the Pond," and "You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet" -- Mind you I remembered 7 of the 9 songs I liked, from memory... quality cd ... even while it only has 10 songs... Roofles.
A DVD Movie, on average, will provide you with the movie you look to purchase (sometimes in both widescreen and full screen--though wide is the way to go), director commentary, deleted scenes, sometimes music videos, not to mention subtitles in various languages, the original theatrical trailer and multiple listening options. Some special editions even provide alternate endings, making-of's, storyboards and more! We're talking hooours of media to satiate every aching desire to know more about the movie.
A Music CD... (forgive me if I mess up here, I've only ever bought one -- and that was a soundtrack not produced by a single artist/group) provides you with upwards of 20 songs (if you're lucky), and you will be lucky if 4 of them are enjoyable. Sometimes you get a music video with it.. but really, all that is, is the performer dancing, and lip syncing to the song anyway -- And usually that's maybe one or two songs... the songs you bought the CD for in the first place! Total entertainment time: the 10 minutes of good songs on the disc... multiplied by the 10 times you listen to those two-four songs before they get old.
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Another slam on the RIAA for not producing quantity and quality in their "stuff." Then marking up the price to "similar" media (eg. DVDs). Further, if they were to give contracts to talented people, who wouldn't need hours of tweaking with their voices in the studio to be recordable, the cost would be less. But, who cares anyway, it'd just make the profit margin bigger, because they can't lower the cost of CDs... "all the people committing piracy make it so we have to charge more to recoup our losses!" Yeah..that's the ticket!
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ps. The CD was D2: The Mighty Ducks ($11.97 New) -- also available on E-Bay. (2.95 + S&H Used)
It cost me $12.99 from Circuit City (at the time, most likely 8-9 years ago), and I bought it for: "We Will Rock You," "We are the Champions," "The Zamboni Song," "Wild Thing," "Rock and Roll Part II," "Mr. Big Stuff," "Whoop! There it is!" "Rock the Pond," and "You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet" -- Mind you I remembered 7 of the 9 songs I liked, from memory... quality cd ... even while it only has 10 songs... Roofles.
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