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Disney, Sony, Lakeshore ... Is this the end of scores on real CDs?
I'm an avid soundtrack collector owning about 2500+ score CDs. Lots of them are rare limited items. I've tried to cover each and every movie I have ever seen or that I'm interested in seeing and a couple of composers I really like.
To cut a long story short: In recent years, there has been an increasing amount of scores of VERY popular movies from Disney, Sony and other studios only available either as mp3 downloads or CD-R. The award-winning Up score, as well as Toy Story 3, A Christmas Carol from Disney are only available as downloads, scores for blockbusters like The Incredible Hulk, District 9, Karate Kid and the DC Universe animated movies are CD-R-only releases!!!
Is this just the beginning? Will they stop selling factory-pressed CDs at some point. And beyond that: is there nothing we collectors can do about it? Have there been any letter writing campaigns, online petitions etc? If not, why not starting these ASAP?
You know, I'm quite panicing a bit. I've invested A LOT of time, money and effort into my score collection and I am unwilling to give in at this point. I've boycotted mp3-download-releases so far and I haven't acquired very many CD-R releases since they are basically worthless due to their much shorter playability expectancy...
I'd really like to know, what we as collectors can do about it...
slordbuffy, August 6, 2010; 10:21 AM
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There has never been so many scores released on factory pressed cd's these past 2 years so I won't worry about this at this moment!
rmensing, August 6, 2010; 1:23 PM
what's wrong with CD-Rs?
bugoobiga, August 6, 2010; 2:41 PM
CD-R's don't have the lifespan as regular pressed cd's, if you have expose them to sunlight a bit too long you will experience a lot of errors on a cd-r, they playing with a lower bit-rate and last but not least everyone can make a cd-r (and artwork) on his computer so what is the fun about that?!!
rmensing, August 6, 2010; 3:27 PM
Your remarks about CD-Rs, do mostly concern scores from Hollywood
productions. Labels with a penching towards arthouse, like CAM, only
offer downloads, when a CD has run out and a new pressing would
not be economic. On the other hand, there is a label like
MoviescoreMedia, which once started with downloads only, and has
meanwhile turned to releasing (and selling) more CDs than MP3s.
As for your question - "...what we as collectors can do about it... ", I
think we should just go on buying CDs. The ongoing success of labels
like Intrada, has made it clearly visible to anyone, that soundtracks
are (along with recordings of classical music) the ONLY segment in the
business, which is NOT suffering from declining sales.
coma, August 7, 2010; 8:23 PM
Labels like FSM, LaLa, Intrada, etc. will certainly continue releasing scores on real factory-pressed CDs.
But I am sure that Major labels like SONY, etc. will stop releasing soundtracks on f-p CDs !!
Such minor sales are not worth bothering for them so I hope that they will, of course, stop licensing them or at least give then one of the speciality labels a sub-license for a limited edition.
goldsmithsonian, August 10, 2010; 7:59 AM
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