http://blogcritics.org/ A sinister cabal of superior bloggers on music, books, film, popular culture, politics, and technology - updated continuously. en Copyright 2005-2007 by the authors Thu, 4 Dec 2008 00:10:34 EST http://backend.userland.com/rss Blogcritics.org custom software /archives/2008/07/14/123134.php#comment-784058 This is the direction the industry should have gone rather than promoting a format war between SACD and DVD-Audio. Everyone is so concerned about copy protection and market domination of format royalties that they have lost sight of true technology improvement. SACD was inferior to even the CD format and had a higher residual distortion. That was argued at the time of promotion by it's format promoters but is now common knowledge. To move to 24/96 DVD is a major improvement but may be too late. With Blu Ray upon us, things may move in that direction. I hope that this takes off but with little concern for higher quality by the general public and their overwhelming support for compressed files for their MP3 & Ipod players, there is little hope. The current economics will have an impact as well. 784058@blogcritics.org Thu, 4 Dec 2008 00:10:34 EST /archives/2008/07/14/123134.php#comment-784056 This is the direction the industry should have gone rather than promoting a format war between SACD and DVD-Audio. Everyone is so concerned about copy protection and market domination of format royalties that they have lost sight of true technology improvement. SACD was inferior to even the CD format and had a higher residual distortion. That was argued at the time of promotion by it's format promoters but is now common knowledge. To move to 24/96 DVD is a major improvement but may be too late. With Blu Ray upon us, things may move in that direction. I hope that this takes off but with little concern for higher quality by the general public and their overwhelming support for compressed files for their MP3 & Ipod players, there is little hope. The current economics will have an impact as well. 784056@blogcritics.org Thu, 4 Dec 2008 00:10:06 EST /archives/2008/07/14/123134.php#comment-733991 First let me state that I'm a recording engineer and label owner that has been capturing and releasing HD Audio content since 2000. I've been very curious about this particular release since the PR hype started over a month ago. I was even interviewed by another journalist who was also curious about the ΧΟΔΕ (CODE) "format" since I've been involved in this area for years. I also picked up the CD/DVD-Video disc yesterday and have listened to the CD and the DVD in my studio (a very high end listening environment). While I applaud the efforts the T Bone and John Mellencamp have made in promoting better quality audio with the inclusion of a DVD-Video disc...this is not a new format and it doesn't represent "a resonance, depth, and presence that is unprecedented in the digital era." 96 kHz/24-bit stereo music files have been issued on DVDs since the introduction of DVD-Video discs back in the spring of 1997. I know because I have doing it with my releases for 10 years. 733991@blogcritics.org Sat, 19 Jul 2008 19:19:27 EDT