While listening to the radio in work today, I was interested to hear a discussion on how we could be having the movies released in the cinema and at the same time available to stream direct to our computers or internet ready TVs at the same time, this got me thinking

I love going to the cinema and taking in the atmosphere of people sitting in rows of seats waiting in anticipation for the film to start on a huge screen, even better when in 3D and most cinemas these days are going digital anyway, giving us a much better movie experience that several years ago.

But will this all change if the option to stream  a film in our own homes on the day it is released in the cinema?

Gone will be the excitement of queuing up for your tickets, grabbing that over priced box of popcorn and taking your seat next to someone who seems to have arms like an octopus.

Personally for me, I love the cinema and the experience will fall by the wayside, with the way we have internet connections in the UK at the moment, there could be an enjoyment squashing moment, when you’re just getting into the film and you get problems with the stream, specially in HD, some of us still have problems just streaming videos from YouTube.

But is this the way that our movie experiences are going? Will w be seeing those wonderful cinemas closing up and becoming yet another bargain shop!

I can’t really see this all happening that quickly, but, with the way that technology goes in leaps and bounds it could be closer than we think.

So what do you think, will paying for a service to stream movies direct to your home on the day they have been released destroy cinema going as we know it? Or, will we keep going to the cinema for the social event that it is?

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Now no one can say that I don’t have wide range of posts on this blog, but the topic of music is something close to my heart, so I thought I would take the time out to write a post for fellow artists/bands with a little advice.

First of all lets start with CDBaby, now I have used CDBaby for three of our releases and have found them very easy to deal with, there is an initial one off cost of $35 per album and then $20 for a barcode for your release, so that’s $55 (£37), but then you post off five physical copies of your CDs to them for to catalogue which will cost you postage, but, CDBaby has now started a Digital Only service so now you only have to send one master to them.

Your music should get listed with several Digital Distribution sites including iTunes, Rhapsody, eMusic and more. CDBaby will take 9% of your earnings from your music, so you get 91% of your earnings from sales, which is really good.

Now on to TuneCore, now the difference here is that you upload all your work to the website and no CDs are needed to send to them. With Tunecore you pay and annual fee for your releases a single is $9.99 and an album is $19.98, also you have to pay $.99 per track and $.99 per store that you album is listed in.

So as an example if you release a 10 track album to all the stores it will cost you:

• $12.87 for all 13 stores
• $9.90 for all 10 tracks
• $19.98 for the annual fee
• Total of  $42.75 (£29.04)
• You Keep 100% profit!

As you can see it’s still cheaper than CDBaby, but, remember that you have to pay an annual fee, where as once your release has gone with CDBaby there are no more costs for you to pay.

So which to go for, hmm, I would personally say that if you are planning or wishing to sell a load of downloads than I would say TuneCore, but if you are looking in to the long term for your music and like your fans to also have the choice of buying a physical CD then I would go with CDBaby.

As I mentioned earlier we have used both for our music and have found that both are worthy of each other, we use CDBaby for our major album releases and use TuneCore for our smaller single and EP releases which we only release for a short period of time. But at the end of the day it’s your decision to make and I hope that this little bit of info has helped in some way or another