From: Elson Trinidad (elson@westworld.com)
Date: Wed Dec 04 2002 - 21:46:04 CET
At 04:16 PM 12/4/02 +0100, you wrote:
>a cd is made from plastic, a 12" made from vinyl....what's the difference
>when you're talking about demateralisation?
Oh there's a big difference - a CD is roughtly 5", a phonograph record is
12" and somewhat thicker.
There's also more resources & energy put not into manufacturing the media
but pressing, etc.
Add to that the fact that only developed nations (with the exception of
Jamaica, heh) have access to vinyl pressing plants, whereas
CD duplication is a much simpler process and can be found in third world
countries (which is where a lot of pirated copies originate from, but
that's another story :)). In short, vinyl is a predominantly first-world
luxury.
>
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