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600 Club - QQ All-Star
soon, everyone will have blu-ray. I say make it blu, with a link to download the dts version.
Yes, I'd love to se Carly Simon - Another Passenger, Ringo - Ringo, or Jethro Tull - M.U. Best released at long last!
Bill Sherbon gave good point. DTS stream compiled from PCM tracks, which can be as is compiled into lossless stream of DVD Audio also.Dts and dvd-a are not mutually exclusive.
technically for quad version MLP needless.Either the license for MLP developed by Meridian Audio, Ltd with the Major labels has expired
Good point. However, without audio compression the hybrid disc may fit only on DVD9, which costs more. It depends on the size of the video layer and the extras.technically for quad version MLP needless.
4 discrete tracks @ 96/24 raw PCM quite fit into bandwith of DVD specification.
Surround did not sell in the past because again it's a bit ahead of it's time and the market needs to find itself and grow from the ground up with the permanent market that is there...
But again the surround market needs to build "legs" over time so that when surround comes back again the permanent market for it is larger and ever growing over time in a sustainable manor.
Rhino has learned from experience with DVD-A: Keep it simple. Keep it affordable. Don't make the buyer have to spring for some esoteric player (in a format that's as good as dead anyway, much as it pains me to say it) to get the "good stuff." Keep the margins high and keep the top office happy.
There would be no need to buy a DVD-A player for these. They can simply be released as they are now as DTS DVDs but with the addition of lossless in the disc's AUDIO_TS folder for those that happen to have DVD-A players. Those with normal DVD players can still play the DTS tracks as any other DVD, but those with DVD-A players would also be able to access the lossless. If there is fear that calling it a DVD-A would cause confusion and hurt sales then simply don't even label/market it as a DVD-A, make it a 'stealth' DVD-A release along the lines of some of the stealth hybrid SACD releases (which were not marked as SACD so casual consumer would assume it was just a regular CD).<snip>Don't make the buyer have to spring for some esoteric player ... <snip>
Not banging on you, Arnold, but let's face it: the age group this music appeals to, generally, is no more likely to download a FLAC file than to know what the hell it is. (Present company excepted - but we're all audio geeks here.)
Rhino has learned from experience with DVD-A: Keep it simple. Keep it affordable. Don't make the buyer have to spring for some esoteric player (in a format that's as good as dead anyway, much as it pains me to say it) to get the "good stuff." Keep the margins high and keep the top office happy.
I'm grateful for what I'm getting. To borrow a phrase, "it's about the music." Formats and downloads and all the other crap can go hang, long as I get multichannel.
Yes, I want to buy flac 24/96/4 downloads! QQ stars, you may create a poll to survey the willingness of the forum members to buy lossless mch downloads from Rhino.I understand your point but do not agree. FLAC download is actually one of Rhino's product lines.
technically for quad version MLP needless.
4 discrete tracks @ 96/24 raw PCM quite fit into bandwith of DVD specification.
what players would recognize them?
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