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In Reply to: Re: Please learn how to read posted by Charles Hansen on March 23, 2007 at 07:23:16:
I bought the Sarah K DVD many years ago. This fact makes you look a bit silly.And you have now confirmed that Blue ray is better.
So you are slowly catching up with me. Maybe you will make a Blu ray player, before the next format arrives :-)Until now the sound on the Band "The last waltz" on DVD with pictures is Dolby Digital 5.1 .
It this famous concert I write about in my post. Notice the headline, please. And the begining of the post. Do you need new reading glasses?
So in case of this concert, I correctly write, "Finally I can get the live music in better than CD quality, with pictures."
This new Blu ray disc with Band "The last waltz" has PCM 5.1 and pictures. See link.There are other concerts, also HD DVD. Buying a Toshiba HD DVD player and the software I like, before they disappear, is not be a problem for me.
I can afford to buy players and software for many formats.I have bought these so far:
JVC DVD audio player
Philips SACD 1000 (working fine because I changed it)
Pioneer DVD Audio SACD player
Sanyo Super VHS
Sony Betamax Hifi
Harman Kardon Compact Cassette
Otari 15" 1/4" 1/2 track stereo master.
Tandberg 7 1/2" and 3 3/4" 1/4 track stereo
Michell LP player
Pioneer LaserdiscBased on this list, I support a lot of diffrent companies stock price:-) I also have a SONY TV, but you also have a SONY TV!
Maybe you are a closet SONY cheerleader ?Another fact you ignore, is that Blu ray is made by many other companies like Samsung, Panasonic, Pioneer and Philips.
So why do you keep talking about SONY? An engineer needs to be more objective.
- http://www.dvdempire.com/Exec/v4_item.asp?userid=99365524739698&item_id=1058080&searchID=5885473 (Open in New Window)
Follow Ups:
All this time I had interpreted your posts to mean that generically Blu-ray offered "better-than-CD-sound" with pictures. My drug-addled brain has finally figured out that you meant you could finally get the specific title "The Last Waltz" with "better-than-CD-sound" with picture.Then you are even crazier than I originally thought:
1) Only a crazy person would buy a $1000 player simply to play one disc.
2) That disc is also available on vinyl, which will sound far better than the Blu-ray version (although you'll either have to imagine the pictures or else synch up your turntable to your DVD player).
3) The soundtrack is not that great to begin with. Here is a quote from the Wikipedia entry, "Like the music in the film itself, [the music on the LP] was almost totally overdubbed in post-production, owing to many faults during the concert." So if you want an "almost totally overdubbed" version of a live concert, that it your privilege, but I think you are crazy.
But go ahead, get your disc and your player while you can, before they discontinue them.
The Band first album got me hooked in my youth. Sadly I could not go to this concert, so the Blu-ray disc with all it faults is the best way for me to experience this unique concert. LP is fine, but not the same experience.Some music I have in many formats, and 14 different LP versions of Dvorak 9th. Each give a different insight.
I only need a USD 599 PS3 and a USD 30 disc. I can then play it many times and share it with friends.
And the PS3 games will make my grand children very happy, so the real cost is the disc.I went to the Beatles Love show in Las Vegas this year, USD 165 for a nice seat. Crazy? Not if you love the Beatles.
Live concerts are expensive, including travel very expensive. But I pay gladly for the unique experience.
I spent 2x8 hours driving, a hotel night in Stockholm and the best tickets to hear Simon & Garfunkel live, perhaps for the last time.
Hearing Hillary Hahn, and talking with her after the concert, is also worth a lot to me.
Compared to above, the PS 3 and Blu ray disc is cheap.
Do you really think the SONY PS3 is going away soon? Then you are crazier than me.
< < I bought the Sarah K DVD many years ago. > >If that is true, then why in the world did you post "Finally I can get the live music in better than CD quality, with pictures."??? Is your brain so old that you had forgotten about the Sara K. disc?
< < And you have now confirmed that Blue ray is better. > >
Yes, Blu-ray is *capable* of better peformance than DVD-Video, which is *capable* of better performance than CD.
But Blu-ray is not *capable* of as good of performance as LP, which in turn is not as *capable* of good of performance as 30 ips master tapes.
But the point is not what the ultimate capability of a format is. I'm sure that in another year or two Sony will be trying to sell you "Purpl-ray" with even better capabilities. Or you and I could launch a new format with 512 kHz sampling at 32 bits floating point. Just look at what was announced at the recent CES -- reel-to-reel first generation dubs of open reel master tapes!
Tomlinson Holman has been talking for years now how much better his 10.2 system is than the current 5.1 system. So what's next, 20.4 channels? 40.8 channels?
The point is that 150 titles do not a format make. In other words, who flipping cares about Blu-ray and their 150 titles? No normal person does. And that means that the studios won't make any money selling the discs. And that means the format is already dead before it's even started.
Get back to me when there are 10,000 (or better yet, 50,000) Blu-ray titles available. Then I'll think about making a player. In the meantime get a life.
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