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Analysis: Bleak Prospects for Disney Music Label’s New CD Format CDVU+

Authored by Jay Baage on July 19, 2007 - 2:06am.
Disney’s music label Hollywood Records on Wednesday unveiled a new CD format with extra features. The company hopes that the digital magazine extras, song lyrics, band photos and other extras to boost fan loyalty will encourage compact-disc purchases in an attempt to reverse declining CD sales. But it is not the first time extra features have been introduced in order to halt the decline of a dying format and the results of those attempts have not been encouraging.