16-Jan-2013, 04:22 AM
Sorry, folks, but these issues are the result of businesses not recognising the shifts in the marketplace soon enough. HMV is roughly the equivalent of a seller of horse whips (buggy whips in US terminology) after the introduction of motor vehicles.
If a company can't adapt to market conditions and rapidly changing technology, they're going to fail, unless they can capture the nostalgia market. Face it, how many of you still use a record turntable on a regular basis? I still have one, but I'm using it, when I have the time, to re-record all my old vinyl records on to the computer. I'll make CDs to play for the time being, since I've resisted iPods and similar devices, but at least I have a digital version of the oldies which I can transfer to whatever medium is popular in another decade.
I'd be unhappy to lose Chris Barber, Acker Bilk, Terry Lightfoot, The Worzels, Cleo Laine and other very British music of which I have vinyl LPs. Most of my "limited" listening on radio is in the car when I'm on my own, since Eileen's tastes wre quite different (except for the Beatles). For me, it's classical music, mainly Baroque, on CBC Radio 2 (Vancouver or Victoria) and occasionally KING-FM in Seattle. Unfortunately we live in a radio frequency "black hole", caused by the way we're ringed by hills. I can't even get CBC at the house unless it's on the car radio after I come off the ridge and the car radio can keep track of it. When I was a transit driver, I couldn't contact the company dispatcher from our neighborhood, even though the antenna is at 4000' up in the mountains.
BTW, I'm not up burning the early morning oil, it's only 19:30 on the 15th here.
Frank
If a company can't adapt to market conditions and rapidly changing technology, they're going to fail, unless they can capture the nostalgia market. Face it, how many of you still use a record turntable on a regular basis? I still have one, but I'm using it, when I have the time, to re-record all my old vinyl records on to the computer. I'll make CDs to play for the time being, since I've resisted iPods and similar devices, but at least I have a digital version of the oldies which I can transfer to whatever medium is popular in another decade.
I'd be unhappy to lose Chris Barber, Acker Bilk, Terry Lightfoot, The Worzels, Cleo Laine and other very British music of which I have vinyl LPs. Most of my "limited" listening on radio is in the car when I'm on my own, since Eileen's tastes wre quite different (except for the Beatles). For me, it's classical music, mainly Baroque, on CBC Radio 2 (Vancouver or Victoria) and occasionally KING-FM in Seattle. Unfortunately we live in a radio frequency "black hole", caused by the way we're ringed by hills. I can't even get CBC at the house unless it's on the car radio after I come off the ridge and the car radio can keep track of it. When I was a transit driver, I couldn't contact the company dispatcher from our neighborhood, even though the antenna is at 4000' up in the mountains.
BTW, I'm not up burning the early morning oil, it's only 19:30 on the 15th here.
Frank
Frank Damp (wife Eileen, nee Nixon)
Leyland resident 1941-1965, emigrated to the US in 1968,
retired to Anacortes, Washington State, USA in 1999.
Leyland resident 1941-1965, emigrated to the US in 1968,
retired to Anacortes, Washington State, USA in 1999.