CDs to Dominate for Years Over Net Downloads-Study
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The compact disc has at least another five years as the most popular music format before online downloads chip away at its dominance, a new study said on Tuesday.
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Drives in PCs and media centres from 2005
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Or dearer. Or disappear? So last year's " Future of Musicâ¢", the DRM-encumbered digital downloads model pioneered by Apple, has stalled. What now?â¦
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Online music sales in Europe and the United States rocketed in 2004, with a tenfold increase to more than 200 million downloaded tracks purchased, a recording industry body said.
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The tune seems to be changing ever so slowly at some record labels when it comes to DRM. Both out of consumer demand and to some extent necessity, some have begun to offer digital downloads in the unprotected MP3 format.
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Copernic Technologies has announced the free availability of the Copernic Desktop Search (CDS), beating Microsoft and Google in the desktop search race.
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Music downloading and file-sharing are on the increase, and record companies who attempt to regulate illegal downloaders get short shrift from internet users, a survey reveals today.
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Hard-drive based multimedia player will be available later this year.
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The Internet may have forever changed the music business, but online downloads will keep playing second fiddle to compact discs for at least the next five years.
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After two years of falling sales, the  music and video retail market is set for a boost as tech-savvy  buyers embrace digital downloading, according to a report on  Thursday by retail analysts.
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Kazaa&#39;s long-standing position as the most popular online file-sharing software appears to be over. Last month, the daily average of file-swappers on the FastTrack peer-to-peer network, which
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According to analysts, just three years from now, 129 million people worldwide will be subscribing to Direct-to-Home Video, most likely with high definition. Will HD optical drives plummet into a niche market along the way?
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Plus: File sharing growing like a Weed. [News.com Extra]
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The struggling music industry could be  seeing the first signs of recovery with figures showing online  downloads more than doubled in Britain in the last week of 2007  compared with 2006, analysts said.
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Discs offering high-definition images using blue lasers likely will rule the market starting in 2005. By Jonathan Sidener. A pessimist might say that right about the time the last person on the planet buys
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Recording companies looking to wring more profits out of music sales are hoping to sell retailers on a new hybrid disc. On one side is standard CD audio; on the other, the enhanced sound, video and other media capabilities of a DVD...
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'Format clarity' coming in 2008, says analyst A clear leader in the battle to be the top next-generation optical disc format could emerge next year as player prices plummet and take of the cost of entry out of the equation, market watcher Understanding &amp; Solutions (U&amp;S) has claimed.â¦