What in the hell is the deal?! (music BD) - Blu-ray Forum

Michael.Schinke · 05-30-2008, 06:13 PM

With higher bandwidth available on the internet and the usage of Bit Torrent and similar faster P2P programs, there is going to be little use for a physical media based music format, much less one with the storage capacity of Blu-ray. Nine Inch Nails latest, free release was available in a master quality 96/24 download that was only a coule of gigs in size as stereo files. True, there may be people who are interested in multichannel music releases, but there are very few bands or artists who are interested in that since most pop recordings won't benefit from it as either and effect or an immersive experience (not enough going on to warrant it). Also, consider the fact that the majority of people listen to their music outside the home - in the car, at work, on the bus, in the park, etc... MP3 players, iPods and laptops are capable of playing just about any audio quality level, so that really just leaves cars radios and portable disc players.

The last hurdle to overcome is the fact that most people just don't care enough. Like a precious poster stated; it's a lot easier for peopel to see the difference between SD and HD then it is for them to hear the difference in audio, which might explain why more homes don't have home theater systems.

All my music at home is stored as lossless tracks on my PC, and encoded at the highest bit rate on my iPod. I just upgraded to lossless in my HT setup, and I'm a musician and home recordist to boot. Believe me when I say I would love it if people would get more interested in investigating the differances between audio types but it just isn't going to happen. The car is a crap environment to listen to music in and most headphones people use aren't that great, so there is very little benefit to having master quality audio for either of these. And as we all know, it takes a mighty setup to really grasp every nuance from even the best lossless Blu-ray. Asking people to accept a new audio standard from whih they would derive little or no benefit, but would incur massive startup and upgrade costs for media and equipment, is simply not an option.

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05-30-2008, 06:13 PM	#30
Michael.Schinke Active Member Member since:Apr 2008 Location:Michigan 4K collection:509 Blu-ray collection:1063 Blu-ray reviews: 14	With higher bandwidth available on the internet and the usage of Bit Torrent and similar faster P2P programs, there is going to be little use for a physical media based music format, much less one with the storage capacity of Blu-ray. Nine Inch Nails latest, free release was available in a master quality 96/24 download that was only a coule of gigs in size as stereo files. True, there may be people who are interested in multichannel music releases, but there are very few bands or artists who are interested in that since most pop recordings won't benefit from it as either and effect or an immersive experience (not enough going on to warrant it). Also, consider the fact that the majority of people listen to their music outside the home - in the car, at work, on the bus, in the park, etc... MP3 players, iPods and laptops are capable of playing just about any audio quality level, so that really just leaves cars radios and portable disc players. The last hurdle to overcome is the fact that most people just don't care enough. Like a precious poster stated; it's a lot easier for peopel to see the difference between SD and HD then it is for them to hear the difference in audio, which might explain why more homes don't have home theater systems. All my music at home is stored as lossless tracks on my PC, and encoded at the highest bit rate on my iPod. I just upgraded to lossless in my HT setup, and I'm a musician and home recordist to boot. Believe me when I say I would love it if people would get more interested in investigating the differances between audio types but it just isn't going to happen. The car is a crap environment to listen to music in and most headphones people use aren't that great, so there is very little benefit to having master quality audio for either of these. And as we all know, it takes a mighty setup to really grasp every nuance from even the best lossless Blu-ray. Asking people to accept a new audio standard from whih they would derive little or no benefit, but would incur massive startup and upgrade costs for media and equipment, is simply not an option.

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