Really, all this talk of introducing "higher quality" digital music is the record companies looking for the next way to keep you paying for content you already own.
I can even understand their fear. Until now every format has had a mass market lifespan of ~15-20 years. When people switched, huge numbers of 'library' albums would be sold providing a nice amount of income for very little work.
It's hard to imagine people ever paying to replace existing mp3/aac tracks, and worse - you and I can give each of our children a perfectly reproduced copy of our entire music library.
I can even understand their fear. Until now every format has had a mass market lifespan of ~15-20 years. When people switched, huge numbers of 'library' albums would be sold providing a nice amount of income for very little work.
It's hard to imagine people ever paying to replace existing mp3/aac tracks, and worse - you and I can give each of our children a perfectly reproduced copy of our entire music library.