[78-L] fwd: The CD is dead

[Michael Biel]

On 1/16/2011 12:35 AM, Cary Ginell wrote:
> Remember that most blogs are not edited, not proofread, and not fact checked. This person gathered information on spurious websites and most likely did no serious research.
>
> Cary Ginell
>

This is the correction I posted there:

This is inept--almost every statement is historically incorrect. Edison 
invented the tinfoil cylinder phonograph in 1877 not 1887, and Edison's 
Tone-Test recitals had nothing to do with the cylinder but promoted the 
Edison Diamond Disc in the late teens.  They were well publicized and 
were quite successful.  It was the Edison cylinder -- not the disc -- 
which required a bank of recording machines but only until 1901 when the 
Gold Mould method of mass duplicating cylinders put them on a par with 
the disc.  The Victor Talking Machine Company was the successor to 
Berliner's Gramophone, not a competitor, and Victor introduced the 10 
and 12-inch discs in 1901, not 03.  Little Nipper was a Bull Terrier, 
not a Pit Bull, and the machine he was listening to was a Victor, not a 
Victrola which was their later machines with an internal horn.  The 1948 
introduction of the Columbia LP was VERY successful.  It was the similar 
1931 Victor long playing Program Transcription which had been met with 
little enthusiasm.  The 1948 Columbia LP had very good sales and was not 
considered a hype by dealers.  South Pacific was just an example of of 
where the LP version was less expensive than the 78, but it sold VERY 
well as a 78.  It broke no "stalemate".   You and everybody else has 
picked the wrong title as "the first LP" because the Mendelssohn was not 
the lowest numbered record in the first release of 125 albums.  Perhaps 
it was not ignorance but editing for space which caused you to skip over 
the open reel and 4-track tape cartridge formats, but this leaves out 20 
years.   I don't remember Mark Coleman's "Playback" as being quite this 
inaccurate.  Perhaps he should sue for misrepresentation by being cited 
as being a "help" for this disaster.

Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com

>> Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2011 23:02:57 -0500
>> From: dlennick at sympatico.ca
>> To: 78-L at 78online.com
>> Subject: [78-L] fwd: The CD is dead
>>
>> Have fun with this one. And don't shoot me, I'm only the messenger (lobbing raw
>> beef into this pack of mangy mutts).
>> http://blogs.laweekly.com/westcoastsound/2011/01/the_format_wars_a_brief_histor.php