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Remember Tower Records?

I guess my point to all this (returning to the OP about how to promote audiophilia/music among the younger generation) is that music is social. All of the big record and book stores have closed down. Theaters are not what they once were and malls are outright hostile to people under 18 (which makes absolutely no sense). Young people have no 'third place,' like those of us who grew up before Napster had in places like TR. How can people blame them for socializing online and therefore listening through earbuds?
 
Not sure I understood. You worked in a TR? I had a friend who later worked at all the big tech firms who confessed to me that his TR job in LA was the best job he’d ever had. I’m sure they were all different.
No, not at all! I worked fairly close to one -- at the US facilities of a biotech/bioanalytical startup spun out of Oxford -- it's a tedious story, but it was a tumultuous year-and-a-half of my life that came unpleasantly close to costing me my marriage. :(
Nah, Tower Records was great. :) They didn't have much call for biochemists, though, AFAIK.
 
Few things were as much fun in my youth than a visit to Tower Records! I remember distinctly when I bought my first CD player and going there and looking at their small selection then, hoping for something new to buy!
 
The good old times! Now we can own thousands of albums in Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music and YouTube Music which is extremely convenient but very lonely.

I remember spending entire afternoons on the weekend in TowerRecords or Virgin stores!
You often do not own that music you pay for online. You can access it for the time being. A lot of people thought they had bought movies on Redbox for streaming whenever they wanted to, but then Redbox went under, and their "libraries" of films were gone in an instant. This is not the first DRM-using firm to go under and leave people high and dry. Buyer beware.
 
Sure, in a few ways. I used the store at Bay & Columbus in San Francisco, and spent a fair amount of time there. Separately my company handled some logistics for them with their Japanese store. It did get kind of hard to get paid towards the end and we cut ties....
 
You often do not own that music you pay for online. You can access it for the time being. A lot of people thought they had bought movies on Redbox for streaming whenever they wanted to, but then Redbox went under, and their "libraries" of films were gone in an instant. This is not the first DRM-using firm to go under and leave people high and dry. Buyer beware.
Same thing with Kaleidescape which cost $$$$$$
 
Same thing with Kaleidescape which cost $$$$$$
Who actually pays for that, though? You'd have to want to pay through the nose to stream at higher quality but not be willing to do a 4k bluray that's much higher quality. And you gotta trust these kaleidescape people to properly encode. Considering how many garbage encodes the major studios put out on bluray, I'd not expect better from this small company. Also, what's their video source? The studios are almost certainly not going to give them DCP or raw footage. Only in the past few months did they even get Dovi, and it's only $3999 for what's really about $100 in hardware.

And of course you don't own the media!
 
Who actually pays for that, though? You'd have to want to pay through the nose to stream at higher quality but not be willing to do a 4k bluray that's much higher quality. And you gotta trust these kaleidescape people to properly encode. Considering how many garbage encodes the major studios put out on bluray, I'd not expect better from this small company. Also, what's their video source? The studios are almost certainly not going to give them DCP or raw footage. Only in the past few months did they even get Dovi, and it's only $3999 for what's really about $100 in hardware.

And of course you don't own the media!
I prefer physical media such as 4k UHD Blu-ray Steelbook with a Panasonic UDP-9000!
 
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