PS3 a faster money sink than the Xbox? I can see why no price cuts soon.

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ssj12 said:

Kasz216 said:

BengaBenga said:

Kasz216 said:

ssj12 said:

alpha_dk said:

ssj12 said:

 

Well with Blu-ray music might get a second round in the HD music players again. Thats right music on Blu-ray in stunning quality.

http://www.highdefdigest.com/news/show/Surround_Records/Music_on_High-Def/Disc_Announcements/Tchaikovskys_Piano_Concertos_Audio_Blu-ray_Announced/1839

 

Lol?

 

I;m serious, I loved the idea of super-audio CDs back in the day. They offered a much cleaner sound then CDs. If they were Blu-Music Discs the audio quality would be amazing. 7.1 Uncompressed audio = awesome!

The problem is... you're about the only one.

If people cared about sound quality we wouldn't have CD's or Cassette tapes. Everyone would still be spinning the Vinyl.

Which is generally the problem. Your looking at this stuff from a tech enthusiasts point of view. Not from the view of the market as a whole.

I mean... why didn't Laserdisc catch on? It was better in every way. Why did VHS beat out Betamax when Beta was the better format?

These are the kind of things the tech enthusists miss.

 

Well, Vinyl is making a big return. The big electronic stores here all sell new Vinyl nowadays, so it's becoming mainstream again. All the new records are also printed on Vinyl.

I buy most of the stuff on vinyl, because it sounds enormously better. You don't need a professional audio set to hear that.

Are you sure it's becoming Mainstream?   Last time I checked it was just traditional DJs and the same musicphiles.  I'm sure it's percentage of the physical media has risen but that would be do to MP3's and stuff catching on.

 

Ya, it is basically those. And the group is called audiophiles not musicphiles. I'd still much rather have SACDs or Blu-CDs as they would be smaller and easier to store.

And our point remains that when talking about the mainstream, those people don't mean anything. 

The market has consistently turned down physical media for downloadable media in music.  Overall physical media sales has been doing nothing but go down.

Are any of you going to try to make the argument than Vinyl sales have been going up by 20% of CD sales?  Because if not, the argument fails (and my guess: it fails).

The market HAS NOT chosen high fidelity, low loss physical media.  The market has chosen low fidelity digital media, and that's only going to continue.

You'll find that sales of high-fidelity digital media has been going up too (solely because of Radiohead and Nine Inch Nails, probably, but...).  They offered lossless versions of their music for sale in addition to the lossy formats.  Audiophiles won't be left in the dust; they will have an option too.  It will likely be a digital option.

Edit: In any case, this is offtopic (not that the topic was a bastion of intellectual discourse to begin with, but...) so I am going to start avoiding it now.