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Offline Simon

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« on: October 09, 2013, 13:25 »
Record companies are trying to tempt fans away from MP3s by releasing albums in a crystal-clear Blu-Ray format.

Nirvana's Nevermind and Amy Winehouse's Back To Black will be among the first records to be released in the format, which comes to the UK this month.

Listeners will need a Blu-Ray player and a stereo system to play the discs, which promise to deliver "the sound as it was intended by the artist".

However, high-fidelity audio products have failed to catch on in the past.

DVD-Audio and Super Audio CD (SACD), both of which launched in the early 2000s, delivered better quality sound than ordinary CDs but faltered in the marketplace.

The new format, officially called Pure Audio, uses similar encoding techniques to those predecessors but, crucially, has the support of all the major record labels from the outset.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-24441979
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Re: Pure Audio
« Reply #1 on: October 09, 2013, 13:30 »
If it works well it could be good as it doesn't need dedicated audio kit  :dunno:

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Re: Pure Audio
« Reply #2 on: October 09, 2013, 14:04 »
Indeed, but it'll be about the 15th time I've bought A Night At The Bloody Opera!
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Re: Pure Audio
« Reply #3 on: October 09, 2013, 15:24 »
Always good to have stuff in loads of different formats  :thumb:

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Re: Pure Audio
« Reply #4 on: October 09, 2013, 18:55 »
;D
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Re: Pure Audio
« Reply #5 on: October 09, 2013, 19:41 »
Nothing wrong with my 78's.   8-)

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Re: Pure Audio
« Reply #6 on: October 09, 2013, 21:28 »
The thing is, I believe you!  :laugh:
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Re: Pure Audio
« Reply #7 on: October 09, 2013, 22:01 »
I still have some up the attic!   :laugh:


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