The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King CD-Rs

[MacBytes]

Category: 3rd Party Hardware
Link: The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King CD-Rs

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[Blaaze]

that's kind of a lot, when you're talking about cd-r's. I bet they'll make a killing with this.

[kuyu]

just like merry and pippin in the prancing pony....

<thick british accent>"Aum gettin' wone"</thick british accent>

[geerlingguy]

I think this idea has legs.

Imagine going to Best Buy (or other music store), going up to a kiosk, signing into your iTunes account, purchasing a CD, then letting the machine spit out your cd with the label for an extra $2. A little cheaper than a CD, but Best Buy would make a bit more money (so would the record labels) because they would no longer have to ship the CDs.

[FlamDrag]

This is an interesting idea. However, it's not something that I'd order online. I'd want to get it at a store for less. $5 for a CD-R seems a bit much. $3 sounds more my speed for a special disc.

Maybe they should bundle these with the DVD release...

Or, if you download the soundtrack from iTunes, add the CD-R for $2.99 + shipping...

I like this concept, but I'm not entirely sure how to make it work as seamlessly as I feel that it needs to work.

[Blackcat]

Originally posted by kuyu
just like merry and pippin in the prancing pony....

<thick british accent>"Aum gettin' wone"</thick british accent>

Nice to see you Americans can't type English either

"Oim gerrin 'un"

Except merry and pippin are Scottish.

[AmigoMac]

Byte by byte.... is the return of the king...

MS Isengart ... Cupertino is moving faster

Let's hope they could move Europe at the same rate...

[Dunepilot]

What a fantastic idea. I've just been looking at compilations from certain labels (like Crank and Saddle Creek), and was just thinking that you could get special labelled, limited edition CDRs from your favourite record labels as part of this concept.

It's very pleasing to see something forward-thinking coming from the record industry.

[Belly-laughs]

Now, this could actually mean the introduction of CD-burning in-store. You buy the CD-R, put it in a burner by the counter that automatically detects the CD and downloads the files to the disc via high-speed internet connection.

Next step might be empty CD-R´s with no graphics that are being burnt and decorated while-u-wait. This would keep costs down to a minimum.

Oh, joy!

[wchamlet]

Except merry and pippin are Scottish.

Nope wrong again. Merry and Pippen are hobbits. Shirelings. heh

[Blackcat]

Originally posted by wchamlet
Nope wrong again. Merry and Pippen are hobbits. Shirelings. heh

Scottish seems a good accent for Hobbits.

[kuyu]

my apologies for the mistake. but, I'd bet you englishmen couldn't tell the difference between a missouri and a kentucky accent. At least not enough to identify where they are from.

Americans can tell immediatly which region and probably which state someone is from.

We are uncultured swine..... but everyone's so friendly here. (ie. we wave at strangers, and always try to lend a helping hand to those in need)
Just like gandalf.

[chazmox]

I think the funniest thing here is the quote from the Warner record exec about "adapting to customer habits.." or something like that. Like this is something that they've had planned all along and that they are such LEADERS in the adaptation to customer habits.

Never mind that they had to be dragged kicking, screaming, and scratching their nails in the dirt into the 21st century!

[rjgjonker]

Am I missing something or do you only get one disc for US$ 4,99? Seems a bit expensive...

I wouldn't pay more than about EUR 2 for such a product, especially since I don't suppose these are Fujifilm or anything near that.

[Bengt77]

Originally posted by Belly-laughs
Now, this could actually mean the introduction of CD-burning in-store.

This has been done in the Free Record Shop (FRS) in the Netherlands. It failed. They had a fairly large collection of the recent (hit) singles from which you could compile your own compilation and then burn that. It was a pretty neat idea, but it failed. Don't exactly know why, since FRS is the biggest music store in the Netherlands with quite some influence (for such a small country) label-wise.

[trebblekicked]

this pretty much wipes out the price advantage of using itms, doesn't it? seeing as printable cd-r's are less than ¢50 each, specialized cd-r's should be $2-$3. but it is a good idea. just hope the prices come down.

[Bengt77]

Originally posted by kuyu
my apologies for the mistake. but, I'd bet you englishmen couldn't tell the difference between a missouri and a kentucky accent. At least not enough to identify where they are from.

Well, that's just great! But, ehm ... isn't that just quite the same as 'us' recognising an Italian as being Italian by his speach? And a Frenchman as being French? And a Polish as being, well, Polish?

Oh no, I must have been mistaken. Of course; Americans are great!

(Yeah, you were just being sarcastic. Well, yada yada yada to you too! )

()

[dombi]

I guess, if these were too cheap, people could start burning the LOTR soundtrack and sell them all around. Maybe that is why they are so "expensive".

[Blackcat]

Originally posted by kuyu
my apologies for the mistake. but, I'd bet you englishmen couldn't tell the difference between a missouri and a kentucky accent. At least not enough to identify where they are from.

I think we could, but not in ASCII

Americans can tell immediatly which region and probably which state someone is from.

But everybody in England comes from London and sounds like Dick Van Dyke

We are uncultured swine..... but everyone's so friendly here. (ie. we wave at strangers, and always try to lend a helping hand to those in need)
Just like gandalf.

We brits could do with learning that habit.

[kuyu]

Good, my sarcasm shines through

The american thing is just like the english being able to tell the difference between someone from the north and someone from the south. But it all sounds the same to the untrained ear....like mine.

[Blackcat]

Originally posted by kuyu
Good, my sarcasm shines through

The american thing is just like the english being able to tell the difference between someone from the north and someone from the south. But it all sounds the same to the untrained ear....like mine.

We can identify someone from the north because we don't have any idea what they are saying!

[nagromme]

The point is not to give iTMS a price advantage--the supermarket has cheap CD-Rs for that, or back up to HD like me! And you don't have to buy a special CD-R to buy the music, it's just an option if you want it.

The point is to sell a LOTR souvenir, which some people do indeed collect and enjoy. So of course it costs more--whatever they think people will pay. Why not? I'm not personally interested in the souvenir, but if I was, +/- $2 wouldn't break the deal.

PS, I'm American, have lived here my whole life, and have no clue what part of my own country a speaker may be from! Except that in general I can detect a southern accent. Nothing more specific.

I generally can, however, tell the difference between Scottish, Irish, etc... maybe I watched too much PBS growing up?

[sketchy]

Originally posted by FlamDrag
This is an interesting idea. However, it's not something that I'd order online. I'd want to get it at a store for less. $5 for a CD-R seems a bit much. $3 sounds more my speed for a special disc.

You can get all three for $12 US, but the link from iTunes sends you to a time warner site. Which I think is super lame. I don't want to enter in my credit card somewhere else...

[kuyu]

Originally posted by Blackcat
We can identify someone from the north because we don't have any idea what they are saying!

you can id an american's origin by the speed at which they speak, and the pronunciation of the word "I"

<blatent sterotype>

South: speak slow, say "ah" --'Ah uz wonderin' if y'alld seen LOTR yeternot'

Noth: speak fast, say "I's" -- 'I's wondering if yous twos seen LOTR yet'

</blatent stereoytype>

[SiliconAddict]

Hmmm follow my train of thought here.

So I go out and pick up a CD-R and burn to it a music file that isn't the same quality as an original CD. Two things strike me as odd.

One, I’m compromising the quality of the music for a novelty.
Two, If I'm already going to get physical media for something I may as well pick up the real CD instead, which after spending $10 for the music and $5 for the CDR works out to about the price of the CD itself anyways.
iTMS is cool because it gives you instant gratification and that the music is generally cheaper. If you did go this route, admittedly no one is forcing you to, you end up spending as much on the online D/L as purchasing the CD IRL.

I give props for pushing online music and putting out a novel idea but if it was me I’d go out and buy the CD, get the CD-Rs for the heck of it, Rip the CD’s onto iTunes at a ridiculously high level like 320kb/s, and then burn them back onto the CD-Rs giving me the best quality possible. Heck you could just rip the uncompressed WAV files off the CD and burn them back onto the CD-Rs with no loss in quality.