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Sony is having another go at a better than Compact-Disc format, this time with technology derived from Blu-ray Disc.
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Sony is having another go at a better than Compact-Disc format, this time with technology derived from Blu-ray Disc.
£15.80-27.15 is the price range of a single CD created using a blue laser?
If so, then they have lost the plot. I guess that winning the HD format war has gone to their heads.
Someone just needs to let them know that BluRay will still be a VERY niche product until it dies, so making CDs with blue lasers - just to cut down on the amount of equipment they use - may not be the smartest move.
When will they be releasing their blu-spec DVD I wonder? :angst:
sony dont seem to understand that 'innovations' such as these just dont matter at all, especially if it costs more. The public will usually go with the cheaper more convenient option over the more expensive and usually more advanced option. Blu-ray does disprove this slightly but as shaithis says it will probably be a niche market till its killed off, most likely by an ip technology.
Things like this usually end up being used for mastering and such in studios and thats often where they stay.
If these discs can play on a standard CD player then this is essentially just a new authoring technique which offers marginally better quality for a huge price hike, in a market which is already suffering badly at the hands of cheap, compressed and digitally distributed music...?
Are they mad?
Possibly a little bored aswell :)Quote:
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Originally Posted by shaithis
Stupid idea and they need to get someone who understands the credit crunch has affects on people spending so why pay more for hardly any difference?
This is just another format for Audiophiles to get excited over.
Identical content on one of these is going to sound like "a veil has been lifted", "more open", have a "larger soundstage", be "more fathfull" and like "night and day" compaired to a regular CD.
We shall all roll our eyes and wonder how identical digital data can sound different from a slightly different recording medium.
Were there punch-card-ophiles back in the day that insisted in using a particular kind of paper, that appeared to make their calculations run faster?