OT, but needs atention!!!

[Batz Goodfortune]

Y-ellow Paul 'n' y'all.
	Bravo. Couldn't have put it better myself. Literally. Right on the head.
Bang. It is why I can neither stomach nor listen to commercial music from
the majors. It's universally shit.

Be absolutely Icebox.

At 03:31 AM 12/16/99 +0000, pharding at mail.ndirect.co.uk wrote:
>Hi Paul,
>
>you missed out the funniest bit of the Sony story,though it does have 
>sad knock-on effects:-
>
>  Sony screwed up with the VIDEO2000 system, when Betamax and VHS
>> where around, Beta was technically better, but VHS had better marketting
>> and stronger support from manufacturers (Read:cheaper). I think sony
>> learned a BIG lesson from this.
>
>  After losing the video format wars Sony along with many other 
>global electronics giants started buying up record companies,so the 
>old CBS records is now Sony as i'm sure just about everyone knows.EMI 
>used to be linked with Toshiba,Phillips to Polygram records and so 
>on.The reason for this being that all these companies made hi-fi 
>equipment and thus wanted to make the profit from the music played on 
>their stereos.I wouldn't mind but since the 70's CBS records always 
>had about the worse quality pressings of all the big labels and so 
>flimsy i bet that the guy who designed the first floppy disks got his 
>inspiration from a CBS record! 
>
>  These companies made zillions from their overpriced CD's but then 
>Sony really shot themselves in the foot when DAT arrived,(intended 
>as a Domestic not Pro format)when people realized that you could make 
>DAT copies of CD's for less than half the list price of a CD.I guess 
>it was pressure from Sony's own record company that caused Sony to 
>try to scupper the DAT format,(anyone remember the early Sony DAT 
>machines that had to be modified for either 44.1/48K sampling? ).It 
>was only the number of studios using DATs that kept DAT going to this 
>day.......for some reason DAT tapes recorded on Sony machines often 
>glitch when played back on other makes of DAT machines,...suprised?
>
>  so Minidisc could never be allowed to sound as good as DAT for 
>Sony's own internal political reasons.
>   Definition of minidisk......
>
>"sounds ok-ish but then after a while you want to put something else 
>on and dont know why"   Paul Solomons.(Probably the most 
>in-demand Record Mastering engineer in London today)..
>
>If people enjoy their minidiscs then fair enough,but they are not a 
>serious mastering format,please.
>
>  The downside to all these dumb format wars is that the record 
>industry is now controlled by about five major corporations which are 
>only interested in Profit,so they really play it safe and tend to 
>release safe predictable music wherever possible.This is what bothers 
>me most about the whole subject not their profits or any of that 
>stuff.. No wonder so much music is 'dumbed down' right now.Anything 
>new and original tends to get picked up from independent labels (who 
>struggle to get their records in the shops against the majors ).This 
>is what bothers me most about the whole subject not their profits or 
>any of that stuff. Soon there will probably be only one or two global 
>record companies left,though hopefully the internet and MP3's can 
>change things.i hope so.......
>
>Paul harding 
> (wishing new technology made music sound better not 
>worse)
>
>
>
>
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