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Re: Please learn how to read

Posted by Charles Hansen (M) on March 23, 2007 at 07:23:16

In Reply to: Please quote me correctly posted by Ole Lund Christensen on March 22, 2007 at 13:03:04:

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Ole, you make me laugh. I have been reading Jim Taylor's books and his "DVD-FAQ" for over a decade. It's too bad you stopped reading the FAQ in section #1. If you kept reading, you might learn something.

1) DVD-Video has a maximum data rate of 9.8 Mbps. Of this, a maximum of 6.144 Mbps can be allocated to audio. If a 96/24 soundtrack is employed, this will use 4.608 Mbps, leaving roughly 5.2 Mbps for the video.

2) 5.2 Mbps will allow very-good to excellent (but not reference) video quality for most scenes (especially the kind of scenes that would be found in music videos). Only a handful of discs were made with 96/24 and full-motion video (to my knowledge). Two examples are on Chesky records, one with Chuck Mangione and one with Sara K. (The video on these discs is noticeably sub-par, but that was due to poor authoring and not format limitations.)

3) Sales of these discs were poor for one big reason. By and large, the people that care about 96/24 (ie, excellent sound quality) don't care to watch pictures and/or have a TV hooked up to their stereo system.

Sure, it's possible to exceed the performance level of DVD-Video. Just as it's possible to exceed the performance level of Blu-ray. But just because it's possible doesn't mean that people will care or buy it. Sure, there will always be fanatics like you that buy a new player when there is only a handful of software titles available. But that doesn't mean that a format will be successful.

And as I pointed out, your claim "Finally I can get the live music with sound in better than CD quality, with pictures" is, in fact, wrong. A handful of DVD-Video discs with 96/24 LPCM have been available for many years. A lot of DVD-Video discs with 48/24 have also been available for many years. Both of these examples have moving pictures. Both have sound "in better than CD quality".

So like I said, your "finally" exclamation is nearly 10 years behind the times.

In three years, Sony will probably come out with "Purpl-ray". Will you be the first in line to buy into this attempt to boost Sony sagging stock prices? (You will have to trade in your blue pom-poms for purple ones!)

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