thanks, mw, for the update. Sounds like a great presentation, glad their was HH representation there!

I will say, there is very little incentive for investment in new technology without opportunity to earn more money. Tidal was already forced to offer a cheaper tier for the cheapskates.

I would be happy to pay more monthly for a MQA delivered high resolution music streaming service. I am an outlier, I pay much more than average per month on music and movies. Netflix, TIDAL and Hulu Plus (access to over 900 Criterion films) and I'm in heaven.

Our music hobby (just the hardware ...) is expensive and it is obsoleted terrifyingly quickly.

The studios are all owned by different people with differing motivations and backgrounds. Have a read of "How Music Got Free: The End of an Industry, the Turn of the Century, and the Patient Zero of Piracy" to read a rather sympathetic account of Doug Morris, the CEO of Universal Music Group.


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