Music on Blu-Ray! When?

[Johnny Vinyl]

Originally Posted by Tonkhao

i hope one day music on blu will be like today music on cd

I hope it will be better, much better.

CD quality sound isn't exactly what it should be and another format (whether that's Blu-ray or something else) hopefully brings what we've been missing all these years.

[borninusa]

Neil Young is supposed to release his Archives here within the next couple of months on blu-ray. Though, it has been pushed back mult times.

Whats cool about it (assuming it hasnt changed)...is that he is going to make it so you can download other music for the archives as he finds them via a blu-ray live sort of deal.

I think its the future of music.

[Johnny Vinyl]

Originally Posted by borninusa

Neil Young is supposed to release his Archives here within the next couple of months on blu-ray. Though, it has been pushed back mult times.

Whats cool about it (assuming it hasnt changed)...is that he is going to make it so you can download other music for the archives as he finds them via a blu-ray live sort of deal.

I think its the future of music.

You may have a very valid point there! I, myself, am anxiously awaiting this release as I want to see where he takes it. And if anyone can take us into a new direction it's him.

I heard there are several others planned (don't know how many exactly) and they are going to be expensive. I don't care though...I'll get them anyway!

Go Neil Go! Show us the way!

[borninusa]

I have read...and I actually think its on Amazon right now..that the Neil set is priced at over $300.

I just think the whole concept of being able to download more music (when Neil finds it...as he was quoted) is quite cool. ....beyond the whole "Ill bet its going to sound awesome".

[Galley]

Several years ago I was convinced that hybrid SACDs would replace CDs. I sold off a large majority of my collection, including some very rare discs. I have since been rebuilding that collection. I won't make that mistake again.

[PS3-Playb3yond]

Originally Posted by Galley

Several years ago I was convinced that hybrid SACDs would replace CDs. I sold off a large majority of my collection, including some very rare discs. I have since been rebuilding that collection. I won't make that mistake again.

LOL! Sorry to hear.

If they do make music in BDs they have to be surround sound. Like SACDs but better.

[Bobby Henderson]

Originally Posted by naturephoto1

The thing is that since the masses have been moving to digital downloads, MP3s, Ipods, etc., they don not realize and seem to notice the loss of information and fidelity. That seems to be partly why SACD and DVD-a have not brought the masses to take the offerings in these formats. That is also why I was suggesting that CD would remain as the standard for the masses.

This is a common myth.

DVD-A and SACD failed because the companies backing these respective formats (Warner Bros. and Sony) failed miserably in supporting them. I find it DEEPLY INSULTING for anyone to stupidly blame the general public for the very pathetic pooch screw these corporations made when launching these next generations formats.

It is not the fault of the general public that DVD-A or SACD failed. Anyone who insists upon that notion is a freaking IDIOT.

The fault of the failure of DVD-A and SACD rests 100% with Warner Bros. and Sony. The general public deserves ABSOLUTELY NO BLAME AT ALL EVER for this. Anyone wanting to counter that is stupidly WRONG. And I mean brain-dead idiotic wrong. Feces smeared in the hair stupidly wrong. Eating your momma's vomit wrong. All the way freaking WRONG.

DVD-A and SACD failed over the lack of quality of content. Nothing more, nothing less. WB and Sony stupidly thought they could get by half-assing a bunch of 30 year old classic rock re-dubs and some jazz albums and classical recordings. They figured that would be enough to move Music CD into another generation of quality. WB and Sony both thought wrong. Very wrong. And those executives in charge at the time need a drop kick to the teeth for that blatant act of ignorance. That is what it was.

The general public wants higher quality audio. But they want NEW MUSIC in whatever high resolution format is delivered. They can't give two farts about a 35 year old album from Santana. They want whatever is new and that is good in the new super high fidelity medium. Sony and WB failed 100% to deliver that with SACD and DVD-A.

Blu-ray has all of the capability of SACD and DVD-A due to its very high bandwidth. The trick is getting modern music producers to create recorded music to the standards capable of Blu-ray. Unfortunately, most of those morons seem to be far more steeped in making horribly, harshly engineered music for really crappy iPod style devices. While they continue doing that stupid crap, I will continue to not give a fart about their industry. They can go out of business for all I care. Deliver some quality product already instead of vomiting out music styles of 1990. Try doing that.