neil wilkes
2K Club - QQ Super Nova
Guy Robinson said:Well said Neil.
However, even if I had permission to have the DTS for free I would buy the DVD-A version. DVD-A is also copy protected. Isn't this a good reason for putting this out in this format? I guess though there are just too few of us that would buy the DVD-A regardless. The band cannot live off the too few dollars from us.
Also, if there are not that many people buying the DTS why don't they release a Dual Disc with a remastered CD on one side and a DVD-A only surround track on the reverse?
Ever tried to get a DualDisc manufacured in the UK?
It's not what you would call easy!
Sony Europe (who have the license) will not even take an order for DVD-Audio.
I hear you loud & clear - hence why I wrote what I did in the way I wrote it - I do believe downloading hurts, but there is much more to it than that.
As far as CP goes on DVD-A, Verance Watermarking is the only one that actually works. The rest of it does not - simple.
The problem lies in the "free for all" culture that our media is promoting for all it's worth in one breath & then roundly condemning as devaluing music in the next. It's hypocrasy.
As far as the general marketing goes, it's down to the labels to promote the product - isn't that why they take the lions share of the royalties? Most bands - unless they go independant - will be lucky to see 15 points of an album. That's 15% of 90% as well, not the full 15% it implies (The industry still takes this 10% off the top as an overhead even though there are no breakages these days & most pressing plants over-run not under-run.)
So the label are taking most of the profit out of the transaction, the stores the next biggest cut.
Yet we see the bands wanting MC & High Rez releases - and the parties making the most money, Stores & labels - whining about the expense of promoting it, or in the case of one well known London Oxford street store - where to put it in their racks (yes, this was used as a reason not to stock DVD-A. It didn't fit into the racks!).
It's looking like we are going to become even more of a minority than we already are, but at least theformat is going to survive.
It's just such a shame that our industry has abandoned the Great Experiment that is High Resolution Audio.