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Online music Downloads to peter out CDs soon

admin — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 08:40:20 +0000

This year, physical media seemed to a little bit good and particularly with the Woolworth’s decline and VHS purchases it could be gathered that there were only few retail chains to buy DVDs and CDs.

According to the research firm Gartner, the time has come when the music recorders will have to more focus on downloads than on CDs.

Mark McGuire, who is an analyst at Gartner, says in this connection, “To survive in this competitive setting, different music labels will have to adopt a strategy of ‘digital first’, as some big labels didn’t succeed in stopping piracy as well as getting nice business in their CD businesses.”

If these different music labels release their new stuff through digital services instead of just focusing on CDs, they have higher chances to achieve the desired results.

“The industry is practicing old promotional and marketing strategies that focus mainly on the launch of CDs and this practice is somewhat difficult to give up,

“But it is a fact that a large of immigrants and digital natives are looking for easier ways and great choices. However, it can’t be that physical CDs would totally wipe out from the scene,” he added

Rise of Netbooks: USB drives may replace CDs in the coming days

admin — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 10:34:47 +0000

There is an unstoppable rise in the demand of such tiny laptop PCs as lack optical drives, but offer a faster internet access and that’s why it’s leading to a decrease in the use of CDs to install software,

Similarly, downloads have become much faster with them and the purchases of such devices feel more satisfying. These are the factors that more and more software makers are turning to USB drives for distribution.
Source Next from Japan is one of such companies as are quite popular because of its CD-free laptops. In Japan CD-free laptops are gaining much popularity these days and more than 30 software titles of Source Next are available as downloads or on flash drives,

These are available in different prices that start at ¥3,970 (£20) and most of them are consisted of anti-virus software, phone utilities and different PC productivity applications. These are found in 1GB drive that weighs 7g and can be reused after installing the software.

According to Source Next, it aims to sell more than one million USB drives in the first year of its arrival and it has really serious designs on the USB installation market.