My thought are the same. I like the the BRD-A format. It's easier than DVD-A to author/create discs (not that I do this anymore) and it accommodates higher sampling rates. What I find difficult to understand is why Sony didn't permit support for DSD bitstreams!
Well, Blu-ray was primarily designed as a video format, so it doesn't make sense to add DSD...anyway the resolutions that Blu-ray can support outperforms standard DSD64.
Well I find it pretty easy to author DVDA. BD authoring looks pretty tedious and I don't have any modern software to even attempt it, other than make an AVCHD.
That's not an actual format. All Blu-ray Discs are BD-V, require audio to be muxed into video, and use the same folder structure (BDMV).
My thinking, though I'm not authority by far. Then to me it gets further obfuscated by PABD "pure audio BD". I mean wth. With no video, how can that be? If only a simple menu displayed is that possible? I mean it is with DVDA, but I've never authored a BD so don't know if the concept of "stills" is allowed.
H.264, which is what Blu-ray uses, is an intra-frame codec. This means it only records the changes between frames. If the underlying M2TS file just has a black screen, then the video part of the file will be extremely small.
Mr A, wonder if they'll ever try putting massive box sets on 4K via 100G discs! If a standard BD~A can hold up to the equivalent of 16 RBCDs in hi res stereo [48/24] I could only guesstimate how many Stereo or multichannel discs could fit on 100G 4K disc??????? Not that we're likely to find out any time soon!
Interesting.
If it ever happens, a classical label will do it first.
MPEG2 as used for DVD-Video is also an intra-frame codec and can have similarly tiny video. The problem is DVD-V doesn't have lossless multi channel audio codecs, they were unique to DVD-A.
And DVD-V doesn't have Java either but I suspect there would be some other way of overlaying a menu on the minimal video.
DGG released all nine Beethoven symphonies on two BDs. I just got mine in yesterday, so I definitely haven’t had a chance to listen yet, but the package says “Karajan” and “Atmos.”
I don’t believe that DSD is superior to 24/96 PCM, although the one album I have in both (Fragile), the SACD sounds a lot brighter. Not to say I don’t adore most of my SACDs - I definitely do, but these days, it seems more like an affectation than a real difference.
I wasn't aware of that, thanks for pointing it out. Uncompressed is going to be a problem for length though, and DVD max bit rate will restrict what could be put on there. Plus I wonder if any players at all support it?
It's been done! There's almost 15 hours on the second disc, over 12 on the first at 24/192. Actually a lovely set and the pictures don't capture how extensive the book is.
Not inferior or superior. DSD is genuinely as full fidelity as HD PCM. Sony tried to create a different "digital language" for the exact same data set. In theory this would have led to consumers buying new AV receivers (with DSD converters) and all recording studios buying new audio interfaces wired for DSD and new DAW apps written for DSD.
My Oppo 95 and 203 blu ray players both stream DSD from SACDs to my Arcam AVR31 amp, during playback the amp front panel display says DSD 2.8MHz. I think saying no one has done the heavy lifting to adapt HDMI for DSD is an exaggeration. It might not be well supported but it exists.
Fair enough!
You’re absolutely right but, of course, OPPO Blu Ray players are no longer in production (and are virtually made of unobtainium). I’m so glad that I bought mine when I did.
