As much as I love Blu-ray the only thing I see it being used for by the music industry is concerts and promo videos that have been record in HD. I find it hard to believe that they will release non HD catalogue titles.
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Wow! You all have not read the very first post to this topic with the link have you?
Alex is absolutely right, but I have to pull him up on his generalisation that "the music industry" is taking the Blu-Ray format to heart.
Neil Young is clearly taking his own lead on this and I would imagine that he has enough clout to be able to do that. Whether his audience is sufficiently equipped with the necessary equipment with which to view / listen to Blu-Ray discs is another matter.
If he succeeds with this, then I fully expect bands like Queen, The Who, The Stones, The bdeatles etc to quickly follow suit and it may be that after enough prominent artists / bands have done so, the "music industry" as a whole will then follow suit.
The consumer however has seemingly had enough of the transitioning to new formats in the last 20-30 years. Remember CDs being marketed as the last word in the listening experience? Hardware costs will presumably have to fall somewhat before the mass market are able to afford the pleasure of Blu-Ray.
One question though - being a techno-phobe - what is the difference between the digital transfer / recording / listening process of Blu-Ray compared to ordinary CDs? My assumption would be that there would be little to choose but that compression is likely to be more pronounced with the amount of data stored on a Blu-Ray disc.
Not interested greatly in the picture content in all honesty here.
Neil Young is clearly taking his own lead on this and I would imagine that he has enough clout to be able to do that. Whether his audience is sufficiently equipped with the necessary equipment with which to view / listen to Blu-Ray discs is another matter.
If he succeeds with this, then I fully expect bands like Queen, The Who, The Stones, The bdeatles etc to quickly follow suit and it may be that after enough prominent artists / bands have done so, the "music industry" as a whole will then follow suit.
The consumer however has seemingly had enough of the transitioning to new formats in the last 20-30 years. Remember CDs being marketed as the last word in the listening experience? Hardware costs will presumably have to fall somewhat before the mass market are able to afford the pleasure of Blu-Ray.
One question though - being a techno-phobe - what is the difference between the digital transfer / recording / listening process of Blu-Ray compared to ordinary CDs? My assumption would be that there would be little to choose but that compression is likely to be more pronounced with the amount of data stored on a Blu-Ray disc.
Not interested greatly in the picture content in all honesty here.
[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]Benn wrote: [/QUOTENAME]One question though - being a techno-phobe - what is the difference between the digital transfer / recording / listening process of Blu-Ray compared to ordinary CDs? My assumption would be that there would be little to choose but that compression is likely to be more pronounced with the amount of data stored on a Blu-Ray disc.[/QUOTE]
In theory Blu-Ray should be a better listening experience because of the increased sampling rate and bigger frequency range, but I doubt very much that anybody is going to HEAR any improvement beyond the technical capabilities of the CD. Especially when we're talking about demo recordings. ;)
The audio doesn't have to have any compression at all (as there is plenty of space on the discs), but there are more possibilities to ruin the audio with a poor sampling rate conversion.
In theory Blu-Ray should be a better listening experience because of the increased sampling rate and bigger frequency range, but I doubt very much that anybody is going to HEAR any improvement beyond the technical capabilities of the CD. Especially when we're talking about demo recordings. ;)
The audio doesn't have to have any compression at all (as there is plenty of space on the discs), but there are more possibilities to ruin the audio with a poor sampling rate conversion.
...and what of artists such as R.E.M., Talking Heads, and Neil Young making archive releases with each of the studio l.p.s as either c.d./d.v.d. combos or Blu-Ray discs? It seems to make far more sense than having more releases that the public won't buy in the first place except very few people. Especially if the box sets are too big. As it is the music industry are going to need to give a motive to the public to buy their products again at some point.
[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]AlexRocks wrote: [/QUOTENAME]...and what of artists such as R.E.M., Talking Heads, and Neil Young making archive releases with each of the studio l.p.s as either c.d./d.v.d. combos or Blu-Ray discs? It seems to make far more sense than having more releases that the public won't buy in the first place except very few people. Especially if the box sets are too big. As it is the music industry are going to need to give a motive to the public to buy their products again at some point. [/QUOTE]
For a moment there I thought you were missing the whole point of music industry, but you did get to it in the end: They are there to sell a product. To the record company it doesn't matter if they make $5 out of each album, or $100 out of each box set, as long as the total sum is the same.
Some companies get there by selling the same basic versions of the same albums to new people every year, while some companies need to release new versions of the same albums to sell to the same people again.
A new format (even Blu-Ray!) isn't a magical solution to everything, and it certainly isn't the ONLY solution to anything.
For a moment there I thought you were missing the whole point of music industry, but you did get to it in the end: They are there to sell a product. To the record company it doesn't matter if they make $5 out of each album, or $100 out of each box set, as long as the total sum is the same.
Some companies get there by selling the same basic versions of the same albums to new people every year, while some companies need to release new versions of the same albums to sell to the same people again.
A new format (even Blu-Ray!) isn't a magical solution to everything, and it certainly isn't the ONLY solution to anything.
Now, wouldn't it be nice if "the industry" went and re-issued everything in vinyl format? Big packaging that is faithful to the original and using the same mixes and mastering that were featured originally. Then, where the rarities are concerned, issueing on vinyl and with the same care taken over mixing and mastering with the aim of keeping it all like-for-like.
I for one have definitely considered that the packaging for a Blu-Ray Audio disc should be like a vinyl package. As far as needing something convertable that's what iPods are for you know? I definitely think so!
blu ray is the future! learn it or loose out fools!
[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]newcastle 86 wrote: [/QUOTENAME]blu ray is the future! learn it or loose out fools! [/QUOTE]
Am I mistaken or did I see a 16gig SD card recently?
At this rate they will soon overtake blu-ray for capacity, portability, costs and read/write speeds!
Am I mistaken or did I see a 16gig SD card recently?
At this rate they will soon overtake blu-ray for capacity, portability, costs and read/write speeds!