Music on UHD Blu-Ray

[bailey1987]

The digital bridge feature of Ultra HD Blu-Ray seems to lend it's self better to music, especially singles, I know that there are insiders on these forums, do any of you know if the music industry has any plans to support Ultra HD Blu-Ray?

The studios do not seem to have much enthusiasm about High Fidelity Pure Audio(HFPA) which is a shame, but, due to HFPA being kept very niche there is a great opportunity for the music studios to make use of the new format.

I can't see the likes of Spotify staying free forever and as soon as it starts charging people will return to buying music, The UK has recently back tracked on it's decision to allow you to copy music CD's legally and has now made it illegal again. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencete...right-law.html The Ultra HD Blu-Ray format has provided a great way for people to listen to their music across a variety of different devices legally it would be such a shame to waste the digital bridge feature.

What do you think?

[Canada]

Police Certifiable 96 KHZ/24 bit.
Pink: The Truth About Love tour 96 KHZ/24 bit.

It won't help Blu-ray audio if the the audio bit rates are not increase to at least 96 KHZ/ 24 Bit. Why does Blu-ray pure audio have 3 codecs, especially a PCM, Dolby True HD and a DTS MA when they sound the same and could just provide a high bit rate Uncompressed PCM track and be done with it. Everybody on the site says how they love Uncompressed PCM.

[Derb]

Originally Posted by Canada

Police Certifiable 96 KHZ/24 bit.
Pink: The Truth About Love tour 96 KHZ/24 bit.

It won't help Blu-ray audio if the the audio bit rates are not increase to at least 96 KHZ/ 24 Bit. Why does Blu-ray pure audio have 3 codecs, especially a PCM, Dolby True HD and a DTS MA when they sound the same and could just provide a high bit rate Uncompressed PCM track and be done with it. Everybody on the site says how they love Uncompressed PCM.

I used to distinguish each lossless track codec when/if available. Dolby is more accurate than dts. (Cuz uh, they still do in-house mixing) LPCM is hit & miss.. Usually a hit.. but I've heard 640kbps tracks best 13.4 LPCM tracks. Clearly something went wrong during the transfers but granting one codec as a superior choice is misleading just for this reason alone.

I agree 96/24 should be a mandatory audio placement with UHD. I've compared these tracks with their lesser counterparts & every test, 96/24 wins. If people can't distinguish the sound quality difference yet, I'm sure 48/16 is good enough for them & if so, so should 1080p

[singhcr]

Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD Master Audio are lossless compression formats. They both decode to PCM in real time as the movie plays. Any difference between a TrueHD track and a DTS-HD MA track for the same movie is due to mastering/mixing, NOT the codec. It is mathematically impossible.

That is like saying a WAV file will sound different if extracted from a ZIP versus a RAR file.

Otherwise, I'd love to see 96/24 be mandated for UHD BD. At least mandate 24 bit audio streams, I'd think. A lot of movie content is 48/24. Sometimes you get 24 bit tracks on the BD as well.