The world is going streamline, Pandora, Slacker, Spotify, Netflix and iTunes as well among many others. Everything is about streaming videos, music, books and the whole world. You can stream it and/or download it. Some streaming services require a fee, other services are free but with a charge to download. Fewer still are free all around. And if you want high definition it will cost you a few extra dollars per download. I think the world is getting ahead of itself again here.
There are many people who care about quality picture and sound and will still always buy physical copies to play straight from there or rip into a high quality file themselves because there is no guarantee that the content provider has done that properly. Yeah, you can convert an mp3 into a FLAC file, but it will still have the mp3 quality instead of the FLAC file. FLAC is a lossless audio file, it has the same quality as the physical CD has, whereas an mp3 is a compressed file. Think of it like crushing a can, the uncrushed can is your disc and lossless files and the crushed can is your mp3 and lower bit rate files. You can still take that can and put it into an uncrushed can but it will still remain a crushed can. The same is true for video files as well.
People will try to take advantage of people and claim that have true quality files but in reality many of them are actually lower quality low bit rate files. And while no extra effort and not a lot of extra time is taken to initially rip a disc into a lossless high quality file, content providers will still charge you more for the tag of high quality. And then comes the matter of storage because lossless files take up a lot more space than a compressed file. There are many people that don?t realize this and more still don?t care what kind of file they have. The world may be built to revolve around the average, you can?t ignore the smaller groups that prefer different things.
There are entire forums built around high quality products to complement high quality things. I am a member of one such forum. It revolves around music and how you listen to it. Buying the quality music player that support lossless files and the headphones or earphones and amps necessary to truly hear and appreciate said quality is always being discussed. That?s not a mainstream market and is mostly ignored by the world. Most of the popular ?great quality? headphones are shunned by this minority market of true quality because they have a price tag that another product of the same price, and in many cases cheaper, you can get a much better product.
Yet here we are, in a world progressing into streaming. We are watching videos on screens built for quality but watching a file that isn?t quality. We have devices that can handle high quality audio files and listening to files that aren?t quality. And to get that quality, content providers expect us to pay a premium price for something that we can do ourselves at home in just a few minutes. The question is, is the accessibility of these files at our fingertips worth the damage to our wallets? For less hurt to our wallets, we can go to store and buy the physical copies. With the physical copies we can then do as we please with them. Most will rip music and put them onto their music players, the minority can get their high quality files and the rest can have their lesser quality files. Same for video, you can rip movies and put them onto your devices, those who want quality can rip it into a quality file themselves and the rest can rip it into a standard definition file if they want. So again, in this world of people claiming to want quality, is it worth the price of convenience to get poor quality or you can spare your wallets some hurt and wait as long as it takes to go to store to choose for yourself what quality you want?
There are many people who care about quality picture and sound and will still always buy physical copies to play straight from there or rip into a high quality file themselves because there is no guarantee that the content provider has done that properly. Yeah, you can convert an mp3 into a FLAC file, but it will still have the mp3 quality instead of the FLAC file. FLAC is a lossless audio file, it has the same quality as the physical CD has, whereas an mp3 is a compressed file. Think of it like crushing a can, the uncrushed can is your disc and lossless files and the crushed can is your mp3 and lower bit rate files. You can still take that can and put it into an uncrushed can but it will still remain a crushed can. The same is true for video files as well.
People will try to take advantage of people and claim that have true quality files but in reality many of them are actually lower quality low bit rate files. And while no extra effort and not a lot of extra time is taken to initially rip a disc into a lossless high quality file, content providers will still charge you more for the tag of high quality. And then comes the matter of storage because lossless files take up a lot more space than a compressed file. There are many people that don?t realize this and more still don?t care what kind of file they have. The world may be built to revolve around the average, you can?t ignore the smaller groups that prefer different things.
There are entire forums built around high quality products to complement high quality things. I am a member of one such forum. It revolves around music and how you listen to it. Buying the quality music player that support lossless files and the headphones or earphones and amps necessary to truly hear and appreciate said quality is always being discussed. That?s not a mainstream market and is mostly ignored by the world. Most of the popular ?great quality? headphones are shunned by this minority market of true quality because they have a price tag that another product of the same price, and in many cases cheaper, you can get a much better product.
Yet here we are, in a world progressing into streaming. We are watching videos on screens built for quality but watching a file that isn?t quality. We have devices that can handle high quality audio files and listening to files that aren?t quality. And to get that quality, content providers expect us to pay a premium price for something that we can do ourselves at home in just a few minutes. The question is, is the accessibility of these files at our fingertips worth the damage to our wallets? For less hurt to our wallets, we can go to store and buy the physical copies. With the physical copies we can then do as we please with them. Most will rip music and put them onto their music players, the minority can get their high quality files and the rest can have their lesser quality files. Same for video, you can rip movies and put them onto your devices, those who want quality can rip it into a quality file themselves and the rest can rip it into a standard definition file if they want. So again, in this world of people claiming to want quality, is it worth the price of convenience to get poor quality or you can spare your wallets some hurt and wait as long as it takes to go to store to choose for yourself what quality you want?
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