Finally … remastered versions of the Beatles’ albums are going to be released on September 9th. The original CDs were pretty good but there were some errors made, especially on the first four albums, and remastering technology has advanced significantly in the 20 or so years since those CDs were released.

There will be the 12 original albums (proper British versions) in stereo, Magical Mystery Tour and Past Masters 1&2 combined into a single release – buy them separately or as a boxed set with a bonus DVD documentary (no word on what that will consist of yet); no bonus tracks. Also available on that date will be a box containing the mono mixes of 10 of their albums along with two discs of bonus tracks – presumably mixes from singles and B-sides.

Still no decision on putting the stuff on iTunes or other online digital stores.

Couple of other quick things that caught my eye today ….

TechCrunch has this piece on Facebook’s struggles to keep up with user demand. The guess is that their electricity bill every month is US$1 million, another $500,000 per month on bandwidth. Users are now uploading 850 million photos every month so they’re also spending like crazy on storage.

Over at Content Agenda, results of a survey in the US say that 90% of consumers think they should be able to back up their DVD to a hard disk or copy the movie onto a portable device. Now here’s the kicker – 40% of consumers say they would buy more DVDs if they could make back-ups. And 51% say they don’t want to pay for those deluxe editions that include a second disk with a “digital copy.” The studios need to wake up to the facts.

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