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Blu-Ray: the HDCD (or is it DVD-Audio?) of video

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/04/30/blu-ray-the-future-has-been-delayed/

by mechanical_fish • 18 years ago

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mechanical_fish• 18 years ago

I note with amusement that Blu-Ray is meeting all my expectations: It's cruising toward market failure, because consumers value convenience and selection over picture quality.

The audiophiles have been waiting for this to happen.

I would note, for the record, that I own some very nice HDCD disks and one DVD-Audio disk. They sounded great, back when I could play them. Unfortunately my expensive high-quality CD/DVD player bit the dust and, with all of my other music being stored on a server in FLAC format (and the original CDs in boxes in the basement) I just couldn't bring myself to spend hundreds of dollars on a disk player just to play back a handful of annoying physical disks at slightly higher quality...

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