8 Mar
2005
8 Mar
'05
7:25 a.m.
On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 11:12:49AM +0100, Jens M Andreasen wrote:
On Mon, 2005-03-07 at 22:17 +0100, Fons Adriaensen
wrote:
You can be sure that these conditions will be in the interest of the DVD
consortium, and therefore will
- require strict adherence to the DVD specs,
- not favour any open consumer formats.
On Mon, Mar 07, 2005 at 09:32:16PM +0100, Jens M
Andreasen wrote:
... and we don't know these conditions, so here we have reached a dead
end! Isn't this reading the spec upside down? As I
understand it, it is the
disc that must follow the spec in order to be playable in a DVD-A
player. A manufacturer can produce a combined CD/RW/DVD+-[A-Z]/credit
card/FLAC toaster if there is a market for such a product.
I'm not so sure about that. Every manufacturer would need a license
from the DVD consortium, and there will be conditions attached.
...
So the artists simply do not depend on the major labels for distribution
anymore.
Some artist have chosen not to depend on the major labels. But that is
a long way from your generalisation above. Most artist still _do_ depend
on them, and that will not change overnight.
We are drifting away here, but Dave Chapmans original
considerations
still makes sense in the context of a theater or otherwise acoustically
controlled environment.
Dave's project is interesting as it would provide the means to author
a format that is accepted by mainstream consumer equipment. For local
or specialised operations you could as well just use WAV files.
The most likely outcome is that DVD-A/SACD will
be abondoned completely, and replaced with userfriendly formats.
It would be a very _desirable_ outcome to have open consumer formats,
but that is not sufficient to make it the 'most likely' one IMHO.
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FA