neil wilkes
2K Club - QQ Super Nova
I quote this from the Bjork website.
It is difficult to tell what is quoted from Derek Birkett at One Little Indian, and what is quoted from Hoffman.
It looks like the industry is trying to FORCE Blu Ray/HD DVD.
Address all letters of complaint to the address in the quote.
What has - again - been "overlooked" (some might say completely ignored) is that DVD-A/V plays on ALL DVD players. See Vespertine & Medulla for this.
Additionally, why are we essentially being told we cannot have High Resolution?
It's all bollocks and industry politics IMHO.
WHY are the labels allowing the distribution to dictate release formats?
It's bloody pathetic.
It is difficult to tell what is quoted from Derek Birkett at One Little Indian, and what is quoted from Hoffman.
This is seriously bad.from stevehoffman forums, someone wrote OLI and asked them why surrounded wasnt hi-res, which would explain why Volta isn't either, though it doesnt explain as to why Volta isnt a Dualdisc as opposed to a cd+dvd:
hi
both warners and universal - our partners in different territories on
the bjork project - have decided to abandon dvda and sacd - and use dvd
as the universal format
sadly there is not enough demand for sacd and dvda to make releasing in
this format viable for us
the main music retailers no longer support the format -which might
account for its decline in sales
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derek birkett
one LITTLE indian records
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Hi
Thanks for the reply
I agree with you - sacd and dvda are far superior to dvd
Frustratingly we mastered the bjork albums in sacd and dvda
It would have been possible for us to release the box set as an all
format release - covering cd / dvd / dvda /sacd - but we could not
We worked with rhino in the states and universal in europe on this
project
rhino paid for the dvda mastering - but decided to go with dvd rather
than dvda
Universal paid for the sacd mastering - but decided to go with dvd
rather than sacd
Sadly it was a question of timing - had we been 6 months earlier, before
the format change decision - the box set would have been in production
with both sacd and dvda
As I mentioned before - on top of the problems of two multi national
corporations refusing to use competitors software and hardware there is
also an issue with retailers
The major retailers found that the two formats took up too much rack
space and confused the consumer - so they together with the major record
companies decided that they did not want to back several different
formats - and together they decided dvd was going to be the one format
that everyone backed
We have been approached by both universal and warners to consider
remastering bjorks dvd's in blue ray hd dvd - but again each company has
backed a different format!
It looks like the industry is trying to FORCE Blu Ray/HD DVD.
Address all letters of complaint to the address in the quote.
What has - again - been "overlooked" (some might say completely ignored) is that DVD-A/V plays on ALL DVD players. See Vespertine & Medulla for this.
Additionally, why are we essentially being told we cannot have High Resolution?
It's all bollocks and industry politics IMHO.
WHY are the labels allowing the distribution to dictate release formats?
It's bloody pathetic.