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Right now I am listening to the blu-ray of Eddie Vedder live, titled "Water on the Road." It has a 5.1 DTS-HD, 48kHz track, and a 2.0 LPCM, 48kHz track. Sounds bitchin.
I don't understand why somebody in the music industry doesn't take the lead and push to create a new digital audio medium. Maybe the format could even include some optional video playback components. If only the music industry took all that money they spend on lawyers fighting piracy and invested it in promoting new technology that might entice people to buy their product. I have long been a vinyl enthusiast, but I also enjoy my mp3 library as much as the next average joe. Am I weird in that I want a high fidelity and low fidelity version of my music?
What I don't enjoy is the CD. I haven't bought one for years and never will for myself again. BUT... if I could buy digital albums mastered for high-end systems at 48+ kHz, with nice cover art and inserts and whatever extra multimedia, I would totally buy that over vinyl or mp3! The very best vinyl recording just can't compete with these high quality music videos for sound! (At least not as far as any human ear is concerned.) If I worked for a music label and were spearheading this movement, I would probably even go so far as to master at 96kHz just to make it seem fancier, even though the reality is there is negligible difference between 48kHz and 96kHz in discernible quality. This hypothetical new medium would also always include DRM free mp3 versions.
Sadly this is a pipe-dream right now, but at least I am able to rip my own audio tracks off of these music videos I buy! Just wish I didn't have to...
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Thoughts?
What other BD/DVD music videos are you digging?
I don't understand why somebody in the music industry doesn't take the lead and push to create a new digital audio medium. Maybe the format could even include some optional video playback components. If only the music industry took all that money they spend on lawyers fighting piracy and invested it in promoting new technology that might entice people to buy their product. I have long been a vinyl enthusiast, but I also enjoy my mp3 library as much as the next average joe. Am I weird in that I want a high fidelity and low fidelity version of my music?
What I don't enjoy is the CD. I haven't bought one for years and never will for myself again. BUT... if I could buy digital albums mastered for high-end systems at 48+ kHz, with nice cover art and inserts and whatever extra multimedia, I would totally buy that over vinyl or mp3! The very best vinyl recording just can't compete with these high quality music videos for sound! (At least not as far as any human ear is concerned.) If I worked for a music label and were spearheading this movement, I would probably even go so far as to master at 96kHz just to make it seem fancier, even though the reality is there is negligible difference between 48kHz and 96kHz in discernible quality. This hypothetical new medium would also always include DRM free mp3 versions.
Sadly this is a pipe-dream right now, but at least I am able to rip my own audio tracks off of these music videos I buy! Just wish I didn't have to...
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Thoughts?
What other BD/DVD music videos are you digging?