adamslim wrote: > What new formats? There won't be any. The industry has played with > hi-res formats in DVDA and SACD, and they have failed (OK, there -are > -a fair few SACDs of classical music).
Yes, they tried it, it failed. It will be 50 years before the industry tries again, and by then all media will be sold/rented/free over the 'net. > AFAIK there are no agreed > standards for hi-res lossless formats on these new discs, just lots of > ways of putting many surround channels in. Three things: 1) the DVD-A folks were going to use only low res audio, since they were focused on multi-track/surround. They were limited by the data extraction rate of the DVD readers. It took Meridian to explain how lossless works, how it could keep to the limited data rate and still provide high/wide. The committee didn't believe such a think could exist, so one of the Meridian engineers hacked up MLP (Meridian Lossless Packing) overnight and demo'd it. 2) While there are lots multi-track recordings, there is no standard for how the tracks are managed, no standard for how many speakers you need, what kinds of speakers you need, etc. 3) While 5 or 6 full range speakers can sound wonderful, they are not practical, they have a *zero WAF*. Its hard to imagine many married audiophiles going for it. If the industry could standardize on small, limited range rear, side, etc. speakers, the WAF would go up, and there might be a tiny chance it would catch on. > There was a thread recently in which Sean hinted that it may be > feasible to get the TP to decode SACD, but as there is no way to rip > SACDs (without rather serious hardware hacks) and no downloads > available, it ain't gonna happen. The whole point of Sony's invention of DSD and SACD was to prevent ripping to stop the overblown threat of music piracy. -- Pat http://www.pfarrell.com/music/slimserver/slimsoftware.html _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
