100-hour CD's?
 

Music companies fear new 100-hour discs

The music industry this week condemned the launch of two recording systems that will let people copy between 30 and 100 hours of music onto a single disc. The launches, from electronics giants Sony and Philips, are being seen as a potential pirates' charter.

"It's a no-brainer. Anything which lets people pirate more music like this has to be very bad news for the music industry," says a spokesman for Britain's record industry....more

Having lost already years of precious adaptation time in pointless fights against p2p services they are bound to fear all technical developments that promise consumers better bandwidths and larger storage media. But everybody knows that this is precisely what we are going to get. Year by year those bits will just keep getting cheaper and faster to download and to store.

It's ironic how even Sony's own technical division has to advice their music division in public to accept the inevitable:

- tg :WA:

Music companies fear new 100-hour discs

They're called DVD's:uu:

I already have an MP3/CD player. Also, people can get a 20GB MP3 player. This really isn't new.

sony started selling a recordable disc in japan last week that holds apx 7200 mp3s or 700 wavs, and not because of some new compression scheme. it’s a super dvd with room for 27 gigs of data - the equivalent of nearly 6 regular dvd's, and they plan on further increasing its capacity (it uses a small wavelength blue laser). toshiba and other manufacturers will be releasing similar discs as well.

while there are at least 2 portable mp3 players on the market with 20 gig capacities, they’re harddrive based and reloading can take forever depending on your transfer speeds. that makes it tough to share your music as well but these new discs are just like normal dvds - recordable, swappable, portable and changeable on the fly. very convenient

- js.