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RE: Your topic is where things are going in the future

You have that right. Streaming uses more total bandwidth, unless the customers only listen to their downloads once on average. But worse, the bandwidth is required in real time, not the case with a download. I have sold CD quality downloads to a customer in Asia using a dial-up line. This worked and it was faster than mailing a disk. Starting a download service required little or no capital investment, whereas a streaming service would have been beyond the budget of this small operation.

Because of the wheeling and dealing involved (think Netflix vs. Comcast) streaming is much more likely to be the domain of big players, and if they can somehow kill off downloads, that will further their cause. This will not benefit musicians and music lovers.

People who are interested in the future of quality audio should not be going down the streaming service route.




Tony Lauck

"Diversity is the law of nature; no two entities in this universe are uniform." - P.R. Sarkar


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