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Easy Livin 
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 Topic: CD Packaging to be revamped
Posted: July 07 2006 at 06:05 |
From the BBC news website:
The world's biggest record company is to sell CDs in basic cardboard sleeves in a bid to compete with online sales.
Universal Music Group is introducing three tiers of packaging in Europe, also including deluxe and sturdier versions of the standard case. It expects the basic CDs to sell for about £7, the standard for about £10, and the deluxe - offering bonus CDs or DVDs - for around £14.
The company said the CD had not "had much of a revamp in the last 20 years".
Stimulating sales
"We thought we should reboot the consumer's experience of buying CDs," said Universal's executive vice president Max Hole. He said the basic package was aimed at stimulating sales for older albums, "similar to a paperback book". More than 26m songs were downloaded legally in the UK in 2005 - up from virtually zero two years earlier.
Universal Music Group expects its digital sales to double this year to about 10% of all sales, and predicts they will make up 25% of revenue by 2010.
The group is home to artists including U2, Mariah Carey and Elton John.
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Posted: July 07 2006 at 07:47 |
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So we'll all be able to get our Mariah CDs for less money!!!
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Sean Trane
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Posted: July 07 2006 at 07:55 |
I alkways hatted this bloody "jewel" case which I found the opposite of the compact disc in itself >>> users hate-ly 
I have privileged ther mini-Lp format whenver I could, but I doubt that Quality cardboard cover/booklets will be cheaper than those bloody plastic craps.
This was already the case of most Cd Singles anyway
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Tony R
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Posted: July 07 2006 at 07:59 |
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In this age of downloading when most people are not even familiar with the names of the band members of the band theyve just downloaded,the need for fancy cases,booklets etc grows less and less important.
If it keeps prices down then why not?
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Posted: July 07 2006 at 08:18 |
Arkama have been doing this for ages - I got a copy of Arzachel/Arzachel and Twink/Think Pink in cardboard packaging - it's a great format (and the CDs were quite cheap on Amazon  ).
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oliverstoned
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Posted: July 07 2006 at 09:28 |
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Interesting. Indeed, there are more and more cardboard "Digipack" sleeves...
That's very nice looking.
But what they call basic carboard sleeves (just a piece of carboard) is very bad, as the Cd is damaged each time you put into or get out.
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Sean Trane
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Posted: July 07 2006 at 09:35 |
 oliverstoned wrote:
Interesting. Indeed, there are more and more cardboard "Digipack" sleeves...
That's very nice looking.
But what they call basic carboard sleeves (just a piece of carboard) is very bad, as the Cd is damaged each time you put into or get out. |
Olivier , I do not think this is about digipacks, but strictly cardboard packaging, so it will be more like a vinyl sleeve.
But full cardboards Cds usually come with a plastic sheet bag or a cloth bag around the disc.
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oliverstoned
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Posted: July 07 2006 at 09:39 |
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Oh yes, if there's a cloth: no problem.
I was thinking about the excellent "Grateful dead Live at fillmore 69'" i own, a 3 Cds set in carboard, very nice looking but no plastic sheets at all!! The Cds are direct into cardboard. Very bad.
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Posted: July 20 2006 at 03:38 |
I have many cd's in my collection that have been perfectly preserved for years in the old fashioned "jewel case", they fit in any rack you may place it in, if they get broken the cases are easily replaced. The problems i have had with slipcases and digipaks - the damn things let in dust, don't fit in the rack, they fall apart and break however careful you are. No, if a thing ain't broke, why try and fix it? 
Edited by mystic fred - July 20 2006 at 03:39
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VanderGraafKommandöh
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Posted: July 20 2006 at 03:49 |
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If they end up like Alphataurus' LP style, then that's not so fun, as that CD is nigh on impossible to get out!
I also have the Arzachel Arkama release and I like it, because it still has a sturdy plastic backing for the CD to clip onto. Infact, the new Robert Wyatt - Theatre Royal Drury Lane is in a similar box as well, as is Hatfield and the North - Hatwise Choice and Matching Mole - Matching Mole.
They still fit in my rack too.
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MikeEnRegalia
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Posted: July 20 2006 at 04:29 |
oliverstoned wrote:
Interesting. Indeed, there are more and more cardboard "Digipack" sleeves...
That's very nice looking.
But what they call basic carboard sleeves (just a piece of carboard) is very bad, as the Cd is damaged each time you put into or get out. |
Yes, I love digipacks ... but "cardboard sleeve" is basically just two pieces of cardboard glued together. It's usually used for promo discs, and I don't like it at all. This is my preference of the different types of packaging: - Digibook
- Mini-LP (an exact replica of the original vinyl release)
- Digipack
- Jewelcase SACD
- Jewelcase
- Cardboard Sleeve
Edited by MikeEnRegalia - July 20 2006 at 04:30
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Posted: July 20 2006 at 04:42 |
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That's a nice idea but I still think they're a bit expensive. Here in Greece, I can find classic CDs in proper plastic cases for 6 Euros. Mind you, the wages aren't so good here so it's only fair.
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oliverstoned
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Posted: July 20 2006 at 05:06 |
MikeEnRegalia wrote:
oliverstoned wrote:
Interesting. Indeed, there are more and more cardboard "Digipack" sleeves...
That's very nice looking.
But what they call basic carboard sleeves (just a piece of carboard) is very bad, as the Cd is damaged each time you put into or get out. |
Yes, I love digipacks ... but "cardboard sleeve" is basically just two pieces of cardboard glued together. It's usually used for promo discs, and I don't like it at all. This is my preference of the different types of packaging:- Digibook
- Mini-LP (an exact replica of the original vinyl release)
- Digipack
- Jewelcase SACD
- Jewelcase
- Cardboard Sleeve
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What do you mean by "Digibook"? A digipack with a thick
"book"?
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MikeEnRegalia
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Posted: July 20 2006 at 05:23 |
^ this is the only image of a digibook that I could find:  it is a real book with the size of a CD, with the booklet content as pages.
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Sean Trane
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Posted: July 20 2006 at 05:34 |
Geck0 wrote:
If they end up like Alphataurus' LP style, then that's not so fun, as that CD is nigh on impossible to get out! >> I know, this is badly designed (and reduced size) Mini-lp to fit the normal jewel case size. I have the same problem with Holderlin's Traum mini-lp, a Korai Orom and a polish excellent psych group >> very frustrating , but this is because they are reduced size (12.5x12.5 cm) to fit the jewell case format.
normal Mini Lp do not have that problem because they are 13.5X13.5 cm, BUT they do not fit in normal Cd racks.
I also have the Arzachel Arkama release and I like it, because it still has a sturdy plastic backing for the CD to clip onto. Infact, the new Robert Wyatt - Theatre Royal Drury Lane is in a similar box as well, as is Hatfield and the North - Hatwise Choice and Matching Mole - Matching Mole. They still fit in my rack too. I believe you describe digipack >> I am not a fan , becauser if the central prongs holding the disc in place tray breaks, then you are severily screwed
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I think that Gilmour's new cardboard version of his latest album is beautiful, but the way to fit the Cd (a sturdy foamy prong) will not last long
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Sean Trane
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Posted: July 20 2006 at 05:37 |
MikeEnRegalia wrote:
^ this is the only image of a digibook that I could find:
it is a real book with the size of a CD, with the booklet content as pages.
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Yeah, that is cool too! 
Gilmour's latest resembles that except for that prong that you fit the disc on.
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let's just stay above the moral melee
prefer the sink to the gutter
keep our sand-castle virtues
content to be a doer
as well as a thinker,
prefer lifting our pen
rather than un-sheath our sword
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oliverstoned
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Posted: July 20 2006 at 05:47 |
Yes, that's cool, it's the case of this Dead one:
Edited by oliverstoned - July 20 2006 at 05:47
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Posted: August 25 2006 at 22:06 |
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the Yes re-releases are in Digipacks. They are quite nice.. I hate Jewel Cases, especially the sticky crap you have to peel off.
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