Should I go all digital??

[endimion]

Mistershine said:

endimion said:
I'll go against everybody else... I can't wait to go all digital.... I want to be able to swap games and take advantage of all, options that WILL come in the future... I don't care about used game like say price drops online too and you have amazing deals all the time... And last but not least I can't stand physical media especially on such ridiculously obsolete and unecological data storage as blu ray or disc based storage in general... And the clutter they creat for no reason...

I don't see any reason to keep going with physical discs in the 21st century unless you are a collector or buy lots of used games months or years after launch and even then I found way better deals on weekly sales than used most of the time...

to me discs games are to video game what are vinyls to all digital  music recording only better in some backward minds and collectors

While I agree with your views on digital for movies and games, music is a different thing all together. With the right setup vinyl is not only as good but can be considerably better than CD and infinitly better than anything from your average online music store/torrent site.

Bold: missing words in my post

 

CD, by a mile. You can make a digital copy of a vinyl record that is audibly indistinguishable from the vinyl. You cannot make a vinyl copy of a CD that sounds just like the original CD. Digital is transparent; analog is not.
the sound signature of vinyl is a physical consequence of the support not the intent of the artist. All digital with loss less recording is the way to go, you just have to look for full digital recording. now vinyl has its charms for some but it is a preference for its listener not a better quality. Part of this must be nostalgia (or retro appeal, depending on your age bracket). But it's also that vinyl adds a certain amount of distortion of a sort that is actually quite appealing. Some people mistake this for "realism" (probably the nostalgia at work there), but of course it's that distortion that makes vinyl non-transparent. and a good record player is around 400 bucks minimum and goes up over 1k and that doesn't count the amp and pre amp 

Bottom line, CD is more accurate, but people like vinyl, and there's nothing wrong with that. I listen to both.

now I agree most music store use some form of MP3 or the likes... but you have good ones too http://www.audiostream.com/content/hd-music-download-sites this is a good list but you have others... I'm not a big apple fan so I haven't checked but I think they are starting do HD music now (????)

 

anyway... I'm all for digital and the more people will chose that route the cheaper it will get.... and even now it is already pretty easy to find cheap deals online now.... if you are a little bit passient... I never bought a game over 30 bucks in DD on 360 and most of the time under 20 bucks....