DVD-Audiobahn

Posted by tunenut (A) on May 30, 2007 at 12:23:51

In Reply to: RE: DVD video standard posted by vinjonman on May 30, 2007 at 05:12:47

the 96/24 version of this is a standard DVD-Video used for stereo music. And they are great.

But the industry doesn't care, because this doesn't solve their ripping and downloading and playing on the computer problems.

SACDs and DVD-As stopped those problems, one big reason why not many people were really interested. People like ripping, copying, and downloading.

And consumers don't much care about 96/24 because most of them think mp3 is more than good enough.

Personally, I think if there is a future to high resolution digital, it will be 96/24 stereo, downloaded from the Internet and burned to a regular DVD using a standard DVD burner (or played directly from hard drive). As posted below, Linn records has already started to sell such downloads. Unfortunately, they are being offered for sale at about twice the price of the original SACDs. Considering that the consumer has to download, author a DVD, then burn it, gets no packaging, etc., it should sell for less than the physical medium. When the price is right, there will be some customers.