Oct 27
Phenakistoscopes are old school machines that used illustrated discs to create animation. Kind of the round version of a flip book. And the Japanese band SOUR wanted those methods in their music video. The whole thing is pretty mesmerizing.
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Sep 06
What Is High-Resolution Audio?
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This week, Sony unleashed a battery of expensive audio gear that claims to support "high-resolution audio" which, like "ultra high-definition" in the video world, sounds pretty snazzy. But what does high-resolution audio mean? And will HRA really make the music sound better?
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Jul 11
In Amazon dispute, EU Court of Justice rules that levies on blank CDs can be collected ‘in some cases’
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Amazon’s spent quite a bit of time in court as of late; in addition to a recently settled trademark dispute with Apple, a row with an Austrian copyright collection agency is keeping the e-tailer busy. Today, the European Court of Justice ruled that, in some cases, EU countries can collect a levy on blank recording media to ensure that musicians are compensated for their work.
The key phrase here is “in some cases,” since establishing whether CDs, memory cards, cassette tapes and other media have been used for public consumption isn’t exactly easy — and it’s not yet clear whether Amazon will have to pay the 1.9 million euros in question. The next step will be for the Austrian supreme court to decide whether it can even be determined whether Amazon customers used such blank media for anything other than home videos and mix tapes. After all, some would argue that burning a French-electro mix to torment your coworkers on a nine-hour drive is hardly a crime.
Via: Reuters
May 06
This creative San Francisco resident put some old CDs to good (?) use.
Mar 25
This Impeccably Accurate CD Player Scans Your Disc Multiple Times for Errors
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It turns out that even the most expensive of home stereo CD players are still occasionally susceptible of incorrectly reading the data on the disc, which can ruin the listening experience. So a company called Parasound has created the CD 1, a Linux-powered standalone CD player that actually reads a disc multiple times during playback to find and eliminate errors. More »
Jan 10
How many CDs did you buy in the last 15 years? Because if you bought some, and you bought them from Amazon they’re about to show up in your Amazon music cloud. But, uh… has anyone been buying them? More »
Jan 10
Amazon to Provide CD Buyers With Cloud-Based MP3s For Free (Update: It’s Just Launched!)
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CNET is reporting that Amazon is planning to launch a reward scheme for CD buyers. When they purchase music in its physical form, they’ll also receive a digital copy, which they’ll be able to listen to via Amazon’s cloud music service. More »
Nov 18
Compared to a C-ROM’s meager 700 MB storage space, and a DVD’s 5-ish GB, a Blu-Ray’s 25 GB is pretty impressive. All of those are nothing compared to a whole Terabyte though, and that’s what FujiFilm is planning to pack on an optical disc arriving in 2015. More »
Nov 18
If CD’s aren’t dead already, they’re dying. After all, plenty of devices being made don’t even have optical drives any more. So what do we do with all those old discs we’ve just got lying around? Artist Bruce Munro has been using them to create mammoth, outdated-media art installations. More »
Oct 01
30 years ago today, a game-changing pair of products were announced: Billy Joel’s 52nd Street on Compact Disc, and the Sony CDP-101, the first device to be able to play it. And the age of the CD was born. More »
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