What would improve CD’s

Maybe inckuding a protection system that could make impossible to burn, copy or release Rap, Hip Hop and Pop music on the CD's.

Iván

Belljar wrote: Joren wrote: Some things are nice, but the only way to make CD's REALLY BETTER, is to make them cheaper! No, I'm not kidding. I don't want to pay 20 euros for a CD... that's just rediculous... I'm with you on that! New CD's are waaay too expencive. Thank God for secondhand shops. They're pretty much as good as new, and about 50% cheaper! (If not more)

Absolutely - it's one of the biggest problems I have with CDs - they cost far less to produce than vinyl albums ever did - and have done for a long time. Why should I pay £15 for something that cost 10p to manufacture? I understand that the bands deserve payment, and the record companies can't produce CDs for nothing, so there has to be a profit margin, but I feel little sympathy for an industry that has pushed the profit margins through the roof and then run out of cash because everyone got a massive pay rise out of it;

Artists now are extortionately overpaid in the premier division (and I mean of pay, not of talent, ROBBIE WILLIAMS!!!), and now the companies are trying to milk even more out of the music by "hitting pirates" - that's the likes of you and me that make illegal copies so that we can decide whether we want to buy the music or not, as we have done for generations.

/end rant, as I could go on about this topic for ages!

CDs can't be improved, except cosmetically. For real improvements, ie to the music, DVD or even better, solid-state audio is the way forward, IMO.

Joren wrote: Some things are nice, but the only way to make CD's REALLY BETTER, is to make them cheaper! No, I'm not kidding. I don't want to pay 20 euros for a CD... that's just rediculous...

I'm with you on that! New CD's are waaay too expencive. Thank God for secondhand shops. They're pretty much as good as new, and about 50% cheaper! (If not more)

I voted for DVD footage. Although it doesn't have to be the making of... We see this all the time with movies. Somehow knowing how a movie is made takes away the magic.   Same applies to music. If you know all the in and outs of a band the magic is gone.

But including a DVD or a DVD track also means bigger expenses for the band or the label. And I guess bands with a low budget could suffer from this.

But what makes lots of prog CDs attractive for me is the special editions with a beautiful book like cover.

CD's are expensive, no doubt, but there are things that could make them more valuable. I'd love to see them with better booklets that contain more information and include a bonus "the Making of *****" DVD to give some behind the scenes info. 

Demos are cool, but I tend to skip over them after a couple of listens.

Hidden tracks that are tacked on to the last song after twenty muinutes of silence are a pain in the arse, especially in the car.... holding down the fast forward button while swerving through rush hour traffic and trying to hold the cell phone to my ear with my left shoulder.....  Bad Idea!!!!!