A ridiculous new format all set to fail just like DualDisc! Sweet!
According to Rush news site Power Windows, Snakes & Arrows, Rush's upcoming album, will be released not only on the venerable CD format (and surely iTunes as well) but will be the frontrunner for Warner Music's latest prank on the public, the DVD-Album format.…
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26 - Tom Johnson
Not all CDs sound that way - only ones produced by people who don't know what they're doing. Well-produced CDs sound as good as anything can in stereo. Who the hell needs 5.1? I'll tell you who - the industry built up around 5.1 technology. THEY need YOU to need it. Stereo is just fine if handled by competent professionals, but unfortunately bands try to do everything themselves and screw it up. Don't think for a second they won't eventually try to do 5.1 by themselves and screw it up equally bad - and probably a lot worse.
27 - Gaz Tunstall
So.. You think less is more, eh?
28 - Tom Johnson
Stereo is fine. You're just going to get crappy sounding 5.1 - nothing is going to change from how it is now, you realize. You'll have your fake wide, panned, weird sounding 5.1 mixes that sound nothing like reality, which is not the way surround and hi-res is meant to sound. It's because the industry and the bands run this, not sound engineers who know what sounds best. Music sounds the way it does today because they're pushing for bigger, louder, and more aggressive. Look for CDs that were mastered and recorded well and you'll hear magic - and you'll feel the same regret that many of us do over the state of music today. I'm not saying there isn't well-done hi-res and 5.1 today, as I know there is, but it won't last once it becomes popular. It'll sound just as terrible as most standard resolution, 2-channel CDs do today.
29 - Gaz Tunstall
Mate, you don't know much about Rush. You can't say, "It's because the industry and the bands run this, not sound engineers who know what sounds best". BLOGCRITIC...more like BLAGGCRITIC! Find something useful to do on the web.
30 - Tom Johnson
Um, okay. Not sure how talk about the general state of CDs and surround sound/hi-res relates to my knowledge about a band that I've pretty much bathed myself in for the past 20 years, but if you say so.
31 - Mark Saleski
just accept it johnson, you know NOTHING! ;-)
gee, just what i want in my music, a surround mix to add even more smear between the midrange and the high end.
sheesh!
32 - Gaz Tunstall
Don't mean to cause trouble, I just think there is a stupid "ghost" channel via stereo surround, there is nothing magic about it our kid.
33 - Hoku
DVD-A and SACD stupid formats huh? Well, I think a lot of you need to get a clue as to what Hi-Rez audio is and what these formats offer. But by all means. Continue to use your ipods. Download those crappy MP3's and hit those crack pipe's kiddies. As long as SACD and DVD-A's are available, I'll continue to buy and support these formats.
34 - Brian aka Guppusmaximus
Sony tried it with fake Surround with SACD several years ago and the sound was not cool.
Maybe if you ran the audio the way it was intended with SACD you wouldn't be talking that smack! With SACD, you have to run 6 analog channels. You will not hear a peep if you try to go digital. Secondly, The best way to experience surround sound is direct through these 6 analog jacks because then you are hearing the channels exactly the way they were recorded. In the digital realm, you are relying on a processor to do signal translation.
Lastly, it wasn't just about surround sound it was about DSD vs. PCM. DSD offered a sampling rate of 2.8224MHz (CD=44.1Khz) at 1 bit.
BUT, this is what you get when you have people who talk out their ass!
...and true DVD-A played only on dedicated DVD-A players unlike the misidentified discs that masquerade as them today, which are really video DVDs with high rez audio on them and play on standard DVD players.
Tom, I know you have come along way in a year and I'm pretty sure you now realize that this statement doesn't make any sense. SACD, was the format with a proprietary player. DVD-A aka DVD Audio could always be played on a regular DVD player and that was the appeal because all DVD players can produce 192Khz/24Bit audio.
I'm pretty sure that this RUSH release had both the 5.1(96Khz/24bit) mix and a 192Khz/24Bit stereo track.
35 - jubi
hey
can some one helps me on this plzzz...
cause
i have a TL 2004 and its not playing any type of DVD's and i wana it to kno wat cud be the problem with that is the lens or is it the unit its self or wat and can some one help me up with this plz plz and thank you nd if any one wants to speak with me about plz feel free to call me cause i wana it to kno how to work this out thats why and thank you soo much [personal contact info deleted]