Sunday Newspapers, Now With CDs

VirtualUK writes "The BBC news site has a story today about The Times news paper now distributing a CD along with the tree mass that comes with its Sunday edition. They cite that one of the main reasons is that Internet connection speeds have still yet to catch up on the whole in order to benefit from the rich multimedia content of the CD."

Oh I get those

[zifty]

I used to get CDs with my paper all the time. Of course, they were from AOL...

Re:True

[Anonymous Coward]

...video on my 486 from a CD yet still forced to a tiny little window with garbled sound quality and badly pixelated video

You played Myst too?

That's nice

[Rosco P. Coltrane]

Somebody should suggest they run an article on Linux, so they'd just have to stick knoppix on the CD and save on the multimediocre content creation.

Also, somebody should suggest the same idea to Playboy Magazine. They don't even need to make it fancy, just a directory with huge jpegs and another with videos ...

Pffft ... CD Newspaper

[Anonymous Coward]

Gonna be awkward trying to read the news while I'm on the throne.

sweeet....

[jr87]

more coasters

Never underestimate

[The Famous Brett Wat]

The cite that one of the main reasons is that internet connection speeds have still yet to catch up on the whole in order to benefit from the rich multimedia content of the CD.

Never underestimate the bandwidth of a paper-boy on a bicycle.

Re:Pffft ... CD Newspaper

[EverDense]

Gonna be awkward trying to read the news while I'm on the throne.

Holy shit! Prince Harry reads Slashdot.

Re:No wonder there's only 2 reply so far

[IIRCAFAIKIANAL]

with the sunday edition AND a multimedia cd, nobody will be done reading the news paper before next week!

That's no excuse! Any slashdot readers won't bother reading the articles anyway - they'd just hold the paper and cd, read the headlines, and then bitch about stuff around the water cooler anyhow... ;)

Re:Enviromentally friendly ?

[wackybrit]

aren't plastics created from oil ?. At least trees can grow back.

Most experiments in producing wooden CDs have failed miserably, except for Madonna's latest album which was both wooden and sold heaps.

Re:Pffft ... CD Newspaper

[IIRCAFAIKIANAL]

Didn't you get your iLoo yet? Or at least hack your own together? (look honey, I duct taped a laptop to the bathroom wall! Isn't it cool!!?)

Favourite comment from the page...

[Anonymous Coward]

I have large picture windows in my living room
and birds keep flying into them, usually breaking
their necks - it's most distressing. However, I
find that if I hang the Sunday Times CD ROM on a
string outside the window they stay well clear.

Thank you, Sunday Times!
Jean, UK

Wow

[Andrewkov]

The Times, now with spyware!

Well, at least it's not the New York times, or you'd have to put in your registration just to open the CD..

Virtual Page Three

[mdmitchell]

>The BBC news site has a story today about The Times news paper now distributing a CD along with the tree mass that comes with its Sunday edition.

Who cares about the Times on CD?
We want the Sun--page three(*) in particular!

*--for explanation see http://home.freeuk.com/webbuk/page3/about.htm

Re:Oh I get those

[di0s]

FWIW, they make great (low cost)shotgun targets, coasters, and most people like getting them less than fruit cakes...

Sunday cd rom

[bunnylove]

Ah, Sunday! The day to kick back, drink coffee, read the paper, play with the kids. Perfect! Ah, sunday! A day to NOT look at a computer screen. Why would anyone ever ruin their Sunday (or any other day) by loading up a cd/dvd that you KNOW willl be filled with ads? It's just junk mail in a different form. Junk mail that takes work to view.... sigh.