adamslim wrote:
Is this going to be the making of DVD-A? If I can rip them and
Squeezebox them, I'll be buying dozens. Music industry, pay attention!
The music industry has paid attention. Major goals of SACD and DvD-A were:
1) make you buy the same ablums all over again
2) implement real copyprotection so you could not rip the songs and put
them up on Kazzaa
That each format could have better sound was not very important to the
industry. A non-trivial number of SACDs had exactly the same content in
their DSD signal as they had in their RedBook, at least according to a
test in Stereophile a few years back.
Since then, the mass market industry has paid attention to the fact that
both formats flopped. There were more LPs sold last year than SACD.
The only SACD album that sold in mass market quantities was a Rolling
Stones album that was not labeled that it contained SACD.
Both SACD and DVD-A are dead as mass market products. There is a tiny
chance that Dual-Disk will keep DVD-A alive.
There will always be niche labels catering to niche groups, and
audiophiles are clearly one. But the music industry in general is run by
accountants and lawyers and are only interested in mass market volumes.
--
Pat
http://www.pfarrell.com/music/slimserver/slimsoftware.html
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