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Super Audio CDs Rolling Your Way

Posted by michael on from the i-have-to-turn-my-head-until-the-darkness-goes dept.

donutello writes "Slate is running an article about the Rolling Stones Remastered series discs having two layers: CD and SACD. The article contains some interesting information about how Sony is sneakily distributing SACD players without the buyers noticing it. This FAQ provides some information about SACDs. Don't expect to be able to play or reproduce these on your computer anytime soon. The SACD format contains a physical watermark on the disc. SACD players will only play discs with valid watermarks. Music watermarks had two opponents: The audiophiles who didn't like their music distorted and people who didn't like the watermarks preventing copying of the music. With the physical watermarks, they have found a way to appease the former while still stopping the latter thus causing a break in the ranks of the opposition."

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  1. Re:Flamebait, or Troll? by HimalayanRoadblock · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Flamebait is ASKING for a fuckin response. A troll is just stupid.

  2. DONT CLICK PARENT by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    If you dont know what it links to, you DONT want to know!

  3. Well, yeah... by Mulletproof · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Anybody who's a slash regular is gonna know. Have some faith.

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    1. Re:Well, yeah... by Ralph+Wiggam · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      It's like rookie hazing here on Slashdot. If you're too dumb to figure out that "goatse.cx" is probably not a family friendly site, you deserve to see it.

  4. Its not as bad as IBM using pallidium secretly by Billly+Gates · · Score: 3, Offtopic

    Anyone here who owns an IBM desktop or laptop wonder why they can not get linux to boot on it?

    Well according to the July edition of CPU magazine,(sorry its not online) IBM secretly implemented palidome drm chips implementating Microsoft/intel's trustworthy computing called tcpa in almost every desktop sold! Andhere are the crippled laptops, and here are the crippled servers. Infact the system is so locked down with each component trusting one another that if you replace the floppy drive for example the system will not run! Remember the motherboard and the eide card both trust the floppy drive with the right encyption sequence in it. Readit and weep.

    Oh and yes I submited this to Rob and he did not post it here. Grrr. I encourage everyone reading this to submit it as a story because this is x100 times as worse as what sony is doing.

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