Disc Editor

I work for a leading PC magazine in the UK so this subject is quite significant to me. More so, I am also the disc editor for the magazine.

I can't really speak for the US but I have several years of experience working on many different UK magazine titles. Traditionally demo discs have been vehicle to help promote magazine sales however the Internet and broadband has had a large effect in making demo disc content largely redundant at least in the PC magazine market where very few exclusive demos feature on discs before being online.

Of course there are many people who don't have broadband and swear by discs, but as Spock once said "The needs of many out way the needs of the few". It is really only a matter of time before demo discs and even some magazines will disappear due to the Internet taking their place in providing the same material.

This kind of make my career a bit finite but the reality is the Internet is having many effects evolving many ways we gather information and shop, demos discs of course being a fairly insignificant speck of dust in the scheme of things, but it's an example of it's effect.