Robert: > This sounds plausible except that it is clearly completely > wrong. Hunger Games has grossed about one quarter billion > dollars in a few weeks worldwide. Don't talk about small > taking over!
But it has -- in the way that the NEW always "takes over" from the OLD by *displacing* it in our culture . . . just as the radio-in-the-parlor took over from the player piano in the 1920s. People still read books (some, like me, even "collect" them) even though (of because) they were already in sharp decline as the underpinning for culture by the late 1800s. The *massive* declines in "physical music" sales, the peaking-and-decline in DVD sales and the overall decline of movie box office, despite (or because of) increasing prices and 3D gimmicks all tell the same story -- MASS MEDIA no longer dominates the "market" or, more importantly, our thoughts. We are now 20+ years into the cultural impact of NETWORKING and 40 years past the initial deployment of the *integrated circuits* which introduced a unheard-of scalability into economics. Three's no turning back. DIGITAL is . . . different! Examples of the sort you mention are well understood as the highlights of that *decline* by those inside the movie/music/entertainment industries and few have any interest in resisting these trends -- hoping, in many cases, to retire before it gets too bad. But, in the context of this list and this thread, these "larger forces" must also be taken into account -- which, ultimately, lead to the perfectly understandable reasons why Ambisonics could never and should never become a "mass-market" technology. Mark Stahlman Brooklyn NY -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/private/sursound/attachments/20120402/5d750f54/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ Sursound mailing list Sursound@music.vt.edu https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound
