In my opinion, the SACD format will likely fail, but DVD-Audio might stand a chance. Since you can still get the surround tracks on any Dolby Digital 5.1 compatible system this makes it a formidable candidate. Also there are DVD-Audio disks that have the DVD-Audio, DTS, AC3, and High res 24 Bit stereo (96K / 192K) capable on the same Disk. Backwards compatibility to AC3 and DTS 5.1 is a definite bonus... ----- Original Message ----- From: ndk To: isaotomita at yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, February 03, 2003 11:53 AM Subject: Re: [isaotomita] Tomita news from Tokyo > > As someone suggested, check if you have a popup-killer running. And thesite's > extremely Flash heavy (100% ?), so you might want to check which Flash version > you have in your browser and possibly upgrade to the latest. Don't knowwhich one > that is, maybe someone else here knows... > Actually it worked for me on the weekend and the past but not now. I might guess they are fixing something and took it offline. I see that as one of the definite pitfalls of fancy media like that, a regular person can't easily get in there and change a typo or add something. As for DTS, its a lossy-compressed format while DVD-A proper uses much higher fidelity and is uncompressed (but then often throws in AC3 for compatibility). DTS is an interesting format in that there is a not too expensive encoder for the PC and it can use CD media for audio only applications. So as for the DIY-er everything is at an advantage, like many people already have the playback system, but its much less so from the perspective a commercial release of ultra high quality music only. And yes I'll agree that it sounds a little better than AC3 On the other hand not everyone, like on most PCs has the decoder... they usually don't have the Dolby Digital AC3 decoder going out surround but at least have the stereo decoder. I am a bit worried that even with a DTS decoder now being pretty much standard in a lot of gear, I'm only seeing the big Hollywood DVDs come out in it, I'm not seeing any increase in media. But both DTS and DVD-A seem still to only be tiny blips with the cool new-ish media formats world. I think Soundblaster just did DVD-A playback on their new card so that should help (not for authoring). And SACD from Sony just messes things up more plus the authoring seems proprietary. FYI Ryuichi Sakamoto tried a SACD and added some non-CD tracks but I don't think he tried again and Sony Music decided not to release a lot of what they did with the CD compatible layer. nick To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: isaotomita-unsubscribe at yahoogroups.com Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
