A note to record that CDs are dead

They have been for a while in many parts, they are too here now.

Before today...

1. Buy CD (9/10 times, online)
2. CD arrives in post
3. RIP to MP3 and place on server
4. Put CD on shelf in back of cupboard under coats n' stuff

Very, very occasionally, buy something on iTunes...

1. Log-in to the iTunes store
2. Download
3. Listen
4. ...time passes
5. Try to explain to 6-year-old why he can't listed to Nizpoli on his Not-an-iPod-MP3 player :-(

That's all changed 'cause Amazon are now selling DRM-free music and, after practically no sleep last night, Finn & I are eating a slow breakfast and listening to newly download Pink Floyd.

Nice.

Amazon isn't the first to do this, but they've nailed the ease of use, you search for the CD (as we'd normally do) but then offer to buy either the physical media or download as MP3.

Nothing like another brick in the wall (part 2) for accompanying a little homework...

39 mega pixel 'blad

Just when I'm musing upgrading from a 350D/XT to something with a little more pixels, maybe a 40D, Engadget has details of an update to Hasselblad's 39 megapixel H3D II camera. But what really interests me about the 40D is spot metering & whether it would solve the craving for the metering in my old OM-4...