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A Potential New Carrier for Classical and Other Music
Since the cost of Blu-Ray players have dropped significantly, and since
Blu-Ray discs by orders of magnitude hold more information than CDs, why doesn't someone, i.e. a company, use Blu-Ray discs as a music carrier? For instance one Blu-Ray disc could probably hold several complete operas and play them back with much higher fidelity than the present "26 year old" CDs. But then again, perhaps this is all "wishful thinking." |
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A Potential New Carrier for Classical and Other Music
This week's online stereophile has:
'Naxos Blu-ray Breakthrough' There is no research to think that there is greater hifi reproduction then now exists in the cd red book standards. |
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A Potential New Carrier for Classical and Other Music
On Sat, 5 Dec 2009 08:21:52 -0800, Peter wrote
(in article ): Since the cost of Blu-Ray players have dropped significantly, and since Blu-Ray discs by orders of magnitude hold more information than CDs, why doesn't someone, i.e. a company, use Blu-Ray discs as a music carrier? For instance one Blu-Ray disc could probably hold several complete operas and play them back with much higher fidelity than the present "26 year old" CDs. But then again, perhaps this is all "wishful thinking." You'll see it, eventually, I think. But like SACD and High-Resolution DVD-A, it won't "catch on" with the buying public. Just my opinion, you understand. |
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A Potential New Carrier for Classical and Other Music
On Sat, 5 Dec 2009 10:01:22 -0800, wrote
(in article ): This week's online stereophile has: 'Naxos Blu-ray Breakthrough' There is no research to think that there is greater hifi reproduction then now exists in the cd red book standards. I'm sorry. I do not understand your last statement. Could you please elaborate? |
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A Potential New Carrier for Classical and Other Music
On 5 Dec 2009 16:21:52 GMT, "Peter"
wrote: Since the cost of Blu-Ray players have dropped significantly, and since Blu-Ray discs by orders of magnitude hold more information than CDs, why doesn't someone, i.e. a company, use Blu-Ray discs as a music carrier? For instance one Blu-Ray disc could probably hold several complete operas and play them back with much higher fidelity than the present "26 year old" CDs. This is beginning but with an emphasis on performances with a good use for video. There is a healthy and growing library of opera and ballet music on BRD which you can listen to, if you wish, without watching a display. There are fewer purely instrumental BRDs but they are coming along, too. OTOH, some labels have begun to release audio-only BRDs, including the excellent Naxos/Haydn set already referenced and several lovely ones from 2L. That said, the enormous capacity of the BRD can accommodate several complete operas or the temporal equivalent in shorter works but I doubt that this will be seen for a while. Marketing such compendia usually comes later in the life-cycle of a medium and I think we will see mostly individual works for a while. Kal |
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A Potential New Carrier for Classical and Other Music
"Sonnova" wrote in message
... On Sat, 5 Dec 2009 08:21:52 -0800, Peter wrote (in article ): Since the cost of Blu-Ray players have dropped significantly, and since Blu-Ray discs by orders of magnitude hold more information than CDs, why doesn't someone, i.e. a company, use Blu-Ray discs as a music carrier? For instance one Blu-Ray disc could probably hold several complete operas and play them back with much higher fidelity than the present "26 year old" CDs. But then again, perhaps this is all "wishful thinking." You'll see it, eventually, I think. But like SACD and High-Resolution DVD-A, it won't "catch on" with the buying public. Just my opinion, you understand. I agree. The great unwashed aren't interested in improved quality, only greater convenience, portability and low cost. Witness the very large number of downloads, and the falling number of CDs sold. Hi-Res music downloads seem to be very much a niche market. If the niche is large enough, or has deep enough pockets, then perhaps there's a place for the small independent label to supply to this niche, but then which small independent lable has the resources for opera or larger orchestral works? They could of course license the performance from one of the major labels, but then it will be an existing recording , not a Hi-Res one. It seems to me, and this again is my opinion, that the "golden era" for high quality recordings, in which the general public showed interest in better quality passed with the introduction of CD. That introduction allowed better quality together with greater convenience, and it fulfilled most people's aspirations. Anything later, like SACD and DVD-A have already largely failed, or at least failed to make any mass-market impact, that record companies are now ,much more interested in tapping the download market than introducing better physical medium recordings. S. |
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A Potential New Carrier for Classical and Other Music
On Dec 5, 11:21=A0am, "Peter"
wrote: Since the cost of Blu-Ray players have dropped significantly, and since Blu-Ray discs by orders of magnitude hold more information than CDs, why doesn't someone, i.e. a company, use Blu-Ray discs as a music carrier? For instance one Blu-Ray disc could probably hold several complete operas and play them back with much higher fidelity than the present "26 year ol= d" CDs. But then again, perhaps this is all "wishful thinking." Speaking of wishful thinking, the current technology is capable of both very steep filtering at the recording end and smooth interpolation of wave-forms at the playback end. These are both needed to extract something like the full capability of the existing CD format. I wish it would actually happen more often. Fred. |
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