Of course, the options that are missing are:

"No, because of the DRM." and
"No, because of sucky file formats".

given the above...

"No, because the BBC is going to YouTube".

Otherwise, I?

"No, because the BBC is going to YouTube".

Otherwise, I would be a "yes".

The BBC content on YouTube will largely be promotional – clips from both classic and new programmes. In the case of new programmes, it will be driving viewers to the Beeb's forthcoming iPlayer service, which will?

That this excessive use of compression & audio trickery is actually exhausting is a key point.?

Excuse when I lost orientation with all the blinking ads, popping up lately on the public address ... but dont you think it goes a bit over board with the ads here?

As I said a few days ago, agency creative for internet advertising is a major problem. I suspect?

The internet does not produce zero-cost content, someone has to spend their limited time to?

with an ad thatīs even bigger than the pa head

@Sebastian: the PA header was reduced in size to accommodate the advert and so as to not push the content any further down the page than was necessary. Irony eh.

oh yeah. firefox adblock. niiice.

and re: loudness. on the local music front: the feelers are loud. (and crap.)

I think itīs a very old subject and I?

No Macs...but see below..

International content will cost.
NZ content free.

iTunes 7.1 is out today and lo and behold, little old NZ is one of the only 5 countries that you can now put parental controls on TV and?

I have been working in Multimedia for years, almost exclusively internet. PA has always been quality and back then it wasnīt probably much more expensive to run the service than it?

In a more general sense, I've always been surprised that ads on the internet actually make people any money. After years of working?

In terms of overall media spend, online was one of the biggest growth areas last year (but it's easy to achieve high growth off a low base of course).

Media organisations have been quick to realise it's?

If given the choice between paying for an add free site and adds – I'd definitely deal with the adds*.

*If you were?

I recall seeing a really neat design for an "adkill" TV accessory that relied on the typical compressed audio signal to detec ads. It seemed quite easy to?

Because surely the mastering is done, and then that master is pressed to CD and vinyl, so the sound (and therefore dynamic range) is essentially the same? I could be wrong, I'm interested to know.

That is an interesting question. However, I wonder whether the way analogue representation of heavily?

I recall seeing a really neat design for an "adkill" TV accessory that relied on the typical compressed audio signal to detec ads. It seemed quite easy to build...

My old TV had a built in solution. When there was too much white space in the picture, the sound turned?

If you were to threaten me with those evil pop up video things I might yield though.

Not. Going. To. Happen.

Also, anyone shed any light on this....

Signed up for iTunes (yea yea teenagers had it for yonks mother finally gets around to it!) and joined NZ store too. Went to download?

ad? what ad?

oh yeah. firefox adblock. niiice.

and re: loudness. on the local music front: the feelers are loud. (and crap.)

I was thinking the same thing James, I've yet to see an ad on PA..until I checked the Adblock log....

CD compression is simply lazy. It doesn't need?

Signed up for iTunes (yea yea teenagers had it for yonks mother finally gets around to it!) and joined NZ store too. Went to download USD1.99 file to be told only avalable to Visa cardholders with US billing address.

iTunes NZ is fiddly to get started with. After signing in,?

ad? what ad?

oh yeah. firefox adblock. niiice.

Bragging about this to a content producer is a bit like bragging about stealing their lunch. If everyone used ad blockers there wouldn't be much of an internet worth viewing. Something to think about.

In a more general sense, I've always been?

PS: You made me think of Deep Swing's 'Takin' Me Higher', from one of those albums. That has one of my all-time favourite breakdowns and you're right: the bass part where it comes back in sounds fucking gorgeous.

Some of those tracks on the N'n'U albums (and indeed on our?

Bragging about this to a content producer is a bit like bragging about stealing their lunch. If everyone used ad blockers there wouldn't be much of an internet worth viewing. Something to think about.

C'mon James, surely you flick channels during the ads, or hit the mute. Even Salon's view?

Advertising is not, yet anyway, compulsory viewing.

And neither is any website. If I had the option to block users with ad-blocking software from seeing my sites I would. It is a quid pro quid that I do not think is unreasonable.

Sure I block TV and almost all forms?

And neither is any website.

As a producer of some of the niche content you are talking about I understand where you are coming from, but taking it one step further, it's not compulsory to produce such.

I actually don't object to advertising on niche sites, but the adblocker is,?

A week or so ago in comments to one of Russell's posts a debate erupted over Democracy. One poster noted that democracy could only be grown from the grass routes up to which Craig R replied (more or less) "what about Germany and?

But a question: how many readers would pay a one or two dollars a week subscription for PA without the ads? Like everything, it would cost yet more money to set up (and I've spent thousands in the last few months), but is it worth pursuing?

A no ads Subscription?

mainly, this is directed @ James Graham.

See, PA once started out with a consistent, clean and modern layout. Easy to read?

I suspect that people who install ad-blocking software have no intention on clicking on web adverts – so the benefits are two-fold: they don't have to see the ad, and you don't have to waste resources serving it.

Most major websites (NZ Herald, Yahoo etc) make most of their money?

Goddamn freeloader.

And, yes, I hate the Vodafone ads as well, not because they're ads, but because they're Vodafone. Fuck Vodafone.?

What I would truly like to see from the Flying Nun catalogue is some inventive, smart compiling. Thematic releases...

I wholeheartedly agree – but as Andrew Dubber and many others would testify, CD is not the right medium for this. Having the whole catalogue online enables the label to create?

I barely notice the advertising, which indicates that I'm not?

I made the same point on PA System a few days ago about the header, personally I would place the top leaderboard ad below the PA header. As you say though each publisher gets to design their site the way they
want.

We tried a few different ways of handling?

With respect to the ethics of using adblock. If your site has flash ads, and I'm at home browsing it with dial-up, they will be blocked. At work, it's not an issue.

Sam Morgan has been quite good value on this issue. TradeMe has a high percentage of dial-up users?

1. Audio compression. I worked in hi-fi (as in the retail side of?

Suit: Hey we need a blinky blinky webby type ad for the interweb.
Creative: Really, woo, cool, OK I'm on it.

Creative (later on cellphone): Hey how much for a blinky blinky ad?

Where are NZ on Air in all of this? Do they have a say in how NZ on Air funded programs are later used? Or do all subsequent rights revert to the broadcaster?

If the former were the case, then NZ on Air might?

Flash as an ad format lets you do more interesting things than just wink and blink at people – we could run an RSS feed straight into an ad if someone wanted it – but people don't tend to.

Oh, I absolutely appreciate that (and that PA is more broadband).?

Except that then work servers promptly blocked most of the externally reffing ads as non-business. Oh well.

I wholeheartedly agree – but as Andrew Dubber and many others would testify, CD is not the right medium for this. .

Actually I don't really agree with that. Pop aside, the celebrity playlists online are largely seen as a failure on the likes of iTunes. A box, such as?

Actually I don't really agree with that. Pop aside, the celebrity playlists online are largely seen as a failure on the likes of iTunes.

Yep. They're bollocks, by and large. But I often make use of the user playlists on emusic. They're a really handy path to follow.

I simply?

There is a difference: pop-ups are actively intrusive.

I think we all agree on that but I was just trying to find out James' position on those, and I think he has the same position on blocking them as he does on banner advertising...

but kept the ad-blocker as an?

This was the point of the column I mentioned in the original blog post: Warners is hobbling itself because it won't put the back catalogue in the place where it has a shot at an audience.

And you are spot on Russell, there is no excuse to keep this stuff?

Just checked http://www.greatfirewallofchina.org
for historyorb.com Feels like an accomplishment to be blocked, as is public address :)

Everyone who?s blocked gets a badge:

http://img.scoop.co.nz/stories/images/0703/badgeflat160.jpg

Bearing in mind, as I just said where I originally heard about that site:

Not that I?m sure I want to encourage getting banned by the Chinese Government?

Dance vinyl has an inherently better dynamic range than CDs.

Absolutely true, and those of us with rooms of the stuff are happy to shout that out as often as possible. Plus a 12" slab of vinyl cannot help but look vastly cooler than a silly small silver disc. And?

With DVD, there is no reason why you shouldn't be able to get albums in a lossless 24-bit format (e.g. Flac). Not seen many though.

Beatport is now offering the option of purchasing tracks in uncompressed WAV format. It costs $1 more for the extra data (the files are up?

http://www.emusic.com/album/10993/10993354.html

And it's slightly surprising how much has been able to be added by the US indies who have licensed local releases, including some Nun stuff. Hopefully that will act?

We were talking about the prospect of the Pin Group being on emusic. Well, guess what. Siltbreeze have issued a retrospective

well, there you go..., that's really very cool, and hopefully there will be a few buyers, especially as you've pointed out, with the site's rather user friendly business model.?

I added Digital as one of those territories in a contract?