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More on DVD-Audio and SACD
Spock the Baptist writes "This article at CNN covers the drive of manufacturers to get the public to convert from the CD format to two relatively new formats, DVD-Audio, and Super Audio Compact Disk. The manufacturers cite the superior audio quality, and 3-dimensionality of the new formats' reproduction as the reasons for customers to embrace these formats. The article also goes on to say: "An added bonus for record companies and retailers, who are engaged in a battle against piracy, is that the relative complexity of DVD-Audios and SACDs makes them much harder to copy. At the same time, that might turn some consumers off the format.""
Now I'll have to buy the White Album again.
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For the book says, "We may be through with the past, but the past ain't through with us."
Music companies will still be releasing crap on those new formats, except this time around, the crap is more crisp and sharp.
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Kinda like a bad constipation
At last, I have always needed those copy-proof CDs!
Oh, wait!
It just means more data gets lost when I encode at 128kbps so the songs fit on my limited memory mp3 device... it'll probably take longer if anything.
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Yup, I love my Portophon (tm) portable phonograph. Skips a bit when I go running however.
"Have you ever thought about just turning off the TV, sitting down with your kids, and hitting them?"
What store's are you shopping in, Dave's DVD Warehouse? I haven't had any problems find new releases in VHS. They're usually in the section under the sign that says "VHS", next to the one marked "DVD".
At the level I'm listenning my music at, I can't even tell if it's mono !
Has a DTD been published for this format yet? Or does each manufacturer have their own?
www.timcoleman.com is a total waste of your time. Never go there.
I'm relieved to hear that someone has finally come up with technology that will prevent audio piracy. I will sleep so much better at night knowing that I can no longer comit these horrible crimes against society. Thank God these new inventions are so often complicated enough that nothing short of a black magic marker can break the glorious encryption! [/sarcasm] Now, I understand these people are trying to market their goods, and stressing the fact that it's difficult to copy is probably a good strategy for them to use to sell to record companies, but jesus.. is anyone still stupid enough to believe that if a technology can be invented to "prevent" compying, that it cannot be surcomvented just as easily? I wish they'd spend this much time coming up with a real solution to the problem rather than trying to throw money at it.
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jonathan barket
Here's an "audiophile to English" dictionary:
"warm" = crackly
"proven" = bigger, less convenient, less versatile
"superior" = elitist
"music" = jazz and classical
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You mean I can buy the media, but I can't listen to the music on it? Yeah, I'd say that is a slight turn-off.
Really DVDA hmm. Maybe someone else will get this reference but when I saw the acronym in a few posts below I almost fell out of my chair. Anyone ever seen Orgazmo!.. If DVDA really is the format that catches on those South Park guys will have field day with that.
"Once you get a certain age in this business the only way you'll get any work in this business is if you do DVDA" -- quoted from a character in Orgazmo.
Who makes you Sig?
lol,
Q: Is home-taping killing the music industry?
A: Yes Yes Yes. Instead of making billions and billions of dollars, the music industry is only making billions of dollars.
I'm going to have to by the White Album all over again.
"Love is a familiar; Love is a devil: there is no evil angel but Love." --William Shakespeare ('Love's Labors Lost')
Poor sap. Until you use all 5 ears and a good 5.1 system, you will never appreciate music the way it is meant to be heard.
http://rareformnewmedia.com/
However, there ARE people who can hear the difference. Why make fun of them wanting something that sounds better?
All you people making fun of them...what kind of computer to you have? After all, most people would not notice the difference between a ~1 GHz Celeron with a GeForce2 MX, and the latest Athlon or P4 and a GeForce 4 Ti4600. Anyone who has spent more than $1000 on their computer setup needs to shut up about the audiophiles.
As soon as I buy a Betamax VCR, a laserdisc player, a DAT player, a MiniDisc player, a digital television, and all those other formats that have "better reproduction quality" while also charging me 2x-3x as much and limiting my options in purchasing media and/or recording.
welcome to the bullcrap that is audio.
I recently installed a soundsystem for our corperate boardroom. a $1500 THX certified amp with decoder in it and a seperate ADC for the coaxial and toslink (blinkey led light) digital audio. so for grings I plugged in the digital audio AND the analog audio from the DVD player. this is a crappy $295.00 sony dvd player.. only progressive scan and the other bullcrap being thrown about.
funny.. the ADC in the $295.00 dvd player sounds EXACTLY the same as the >$500.00 seperate ADC purchased that claims it is precision and all this other baloney only to impress morons with fat checkbooks.
There is some truth out ther in the land of audiophiles.. they are the people spending weeks doing math and CAD to build their own speakers... they are NOT the people that use anything but $0.19 a foot lamp cord for speaker wire (Note to all you "Experts" you CANNOT hear any difference between your $12.00 a foot no ox directional, stereo certified digital speaker wires and my $12.00 per 100 foot roll lamp cord... I've done double blind tests, I used to work sales in a high end audio shop, YOU CANT TELL so stop lying to us!)
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.