mortslim;534270 Wrote: > Sony owns and licenses the SACD chipset in the SACD player that is used > to decrypt the SACD. It is a carefully controlled and licensed > hardware technology. Sony makes money from royalties from manufacturers > of SACD players because these manufacturers have to purchase and license > the SACD chipset from Sony. > > The damage to Sony if that hardware technology is not needed to listen > to music from an SACD (e.g. by a consumer purchasing a downloaded file > that was derived from the SACD that can be played on a computer): > > If the material on an SACD can be accessed by a consumer without the > need for the SACD chipset and thus without the need for an SACD player > this costs Sony royalty payments from purchasers of the music who would > otherwise have to buy an SACD player to listen to the music. If less > SACD players are sold, Sony loses money. > > That horse bolted long ago. Modded SACD players that output 24/88.2 are freely available worldwide and Sony have almost given up on SACD for various reasons. DSD may survive (ironically) as an archive format, which is ONE of the reasons why Sony invented it. Sony's cunning plan to make every studio do a root & branch refit with DSD compatible gear also failed.
The EMM device is an ADC/D-D (NOT AN SACD PLAYER!) If you think that modifying it to output a higher-rate PCM stream is a violation of DMCA you need to do more research. It has no "access controls". It has no encryption. It does not host copyrighted works. Maybe you are thinking that the very existence of the EMM CDSD player violates DMCA? -- Phil Leigh You want to see the signal path BEFORE it gets onto a CD/vinyl...it ain't what you'd call minimal... Touch(wired/XP) - TACT 2.2X (Linear PSU) + Good Vibrations S/W - MF Triplethreat(Audiocom full mods) - Linn 5103 - Aktiv 5.1 system (6x LK140's, ESPEK/TRIKAN/KATAN/SEIZMIK 10.5), Townsend Supertweeters, Blue Jeans Digital,Kimber Speaker & Chord Interconnect cables Kitchen Boom, Outdoors: SB Radio ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Phil Leigh's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=85 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=74688 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
