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The Beginning Of The End For Physical Media? Sony Closes New Jersey CD Manufacturing Plant.
Sony Corp., the company that brought us the Walkman and the parent company of music label Sony Music Entertainment, plans to shut down a CD-manufacturing plant in southern New Jersey in March.
About 300 employees will be laid off once the 50-year-old Sony DADC plant in Pitman, N.J., is closed. Sony said it plans to shift CD-making operations to a facility in Indiana. The company moved DVD manufacturing from the plant about a year ago.
Lisa Gephardt, a Sony spokeswoman said in a statement: "In light of the current economic environment and challenges facing the physical media industry, Sony DADC is taking additional steps to reduce cost from our supply chain network in order to remain competitive."
Who couldn't see these kinds of closures coming? The music CD has become nearly a relic. The emergence of digital music and music players, as well as the rise of illegal file sharing, helped to hasten the demise of the CD as the main music distribution format.
According to Nielsen SoundScan, U.S. music sales fell 2.4 percent last year and digital track sales grew only 1 percent to 1.17 billion. But CD sales fared far worse. When it came to albums, sales of both newer CDs and catalog titles dropped by 16 percent and 23 percent respectively--these two categories also saw double-digit losses the previous year, according to the Los Angeles Times.
The CD was a boon for the record industry. Not only did record labels cash in when music buyers replaced their cassette tapes and vinyl records with discs, but the CD also helped prevent unauthorized copying--at least initially. CDs also discouraged people from buying singles, prompting them to purchase full albums instead.
The plant closure is just another sign that physical media's days are numbered. In addition to music, the film and book industries are amid their own digital transformations. Netflix and Apple are helping to fuel the emergence of Web TV. The Kindle and iPad are helping to drive consumer interest in e-books. How far this goes is anybody's guess but one has to wonder how long printed books and DVDs will be with us.
Source: CNET
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Comment by Fauto on January 14, 2011 at 2:37pm -
why not sooner? noone's buying cds anymore, sht i think the future is not even downloading music to your hardrive but saving playlists on the web and accessing them whenever you want. Cloud computing is the future
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Comment by 8grove on January 14, 2011 at 1:38pm -
Just make a CD/ DVD that can't be ripped.
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Comment by bittersweet on January 13, 2011 at 8:26pm
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Something about this is scary. Like they say in time we will all be one mind connected by implants in our heads. YUK.
And if you think it's too far-fetched, look at this: I don't know what to make of it.
"Deep Blue (the computer that beat human world chess champion Gary Kazparov in 1997) became self-aware about 3 years ago. Deep Blue, according to him, has also detected other self-aware computer brains living in the internet."
WTH?
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Comment by C on January 13, 2011 at 3:09pm -
mp3 is cool, but without a hard copy, it seems to trivialize the music. That s*** gets lost on hard drives, maybe deleted, misplaced, etc. and there is nothing like holding a real CD in your hand... @zierron agreed
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Comment by nic on January 13, 2011 at 2:16pm -
co sign everything zierron jus said and b4 they shut lime wire down i wuz makin c.ds all tha time ta bang in my car
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Comment by zierron on January 13, 2011 at 1:20pm
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Dont know about everybody else but i still love buying cds. why buy digital with no booklet or pics and song credits. I like to read who wrote and produced what. I love having all my music on my ipod dont get me wrong. But i buy cd then put on my ipod that just makes more sense to have both just in case anything happens. I got cd and aux in my car but my girl just has cd and she gat a 06. And besides how many people got cds players in the crib PS3 blurays. I cant c paying the same price for digital with no lyrics or credits even thank yous for same price as cd to just rip cd to computer put on ipod. Relapse Em wrote that letter to proof cant c that on a digital. CDs will never die.
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Comment by DoughBoi ENT on January 13, 2011 at 1:18pm -
is tha bad for some ppl that sign with sony??
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Comment by DEUCE DIME 210 on January 13, 2011 at 11:52am -
i hate how everything is going digital and especially music! i still buy and own my music CD's and will still buy em till they stop making them!
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Comment by thisisMe@50 on January 13, 2011 at 9:57am -
i said it b4 f*** printing all them cds if no one will buy em put your album directly on itunes
s*** imagine how many people want to be the first to buy it download it then reshare it
plus if you go directly to digital sells
artist are more safe from there album being leaked weeks b4 due to warehouse shipments
makes sense
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Comment by Ze' on January 13, 2011 at 9:48am -
i still have all my nas wutang tupac jay z etc cd's on my cd book. cant throw em away they are vintage and they sound better.
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