http://stephenslighthouse.com/2010/03/16/metropolitan-library-system/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=metropolitan-library-system Stephen Abram's Posts About Library Land Fri, 10 Feb 2012 10:58:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://stephenslighthouse.com/2010/03/16/metropolitan-library-system/comment-page-1/#comment-3439 Tom Hartmann Tue, 23 Mar 2010 23:34:31 +0000 http://stephenslighthouse.com/?p=3586#comment-3439 Mr. Abram: You mentioned at the MLS Chicago suburbs talk that DVDs (?) or, was it CD's would be dropped in 4 years. I presume downloading will be the replacing entity. As an old school guy, this is revolutionary to me. I'm used to hard plastic, feel like there's endless piracy via Internet downloading, and, frankly, downloading doesn't get you the nice graphics associated with a movie or music album. You point out correctly that formats change--as you noted where's 8-track video, and audio-cassettes are about supplanted already. Mr. Abram: You mentioned at the MLS Chicago suburbs talk that DVDs (?) or, was it CD’s would be dropped in 4 years. I presume downloading will be the replacing entity. As an old school guy, this is revolutionary to me. I’m used to hard plastic, feel like there’s endless piracy via Internet downloading, and, frankly, downloading doesn’t get you the nice graphics associated with a movie or music album. You point out correctly that formats change–as you noted where’s 8-track video, and audio-cassettes are about supplanted already.

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