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The Seventh Taylor
Joined: 17 Aug 2007 Posts: 401
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Posted: Sat May 24, 2008 9:17 am Post subject: Neil Young's long-promised Archive coming out on BD |
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The Wall Street Journal has an article this week, with some (arguably justified) skeptical remarks referring to the track record of SACD and other high-res formats.
Quote: | The track record for physical music formats that purport to improve on CDs has been mixed at best, even as digital downloading has taken off. An alphabet soup of would-be successors have come and mostly gone without making a commercial dent. It's unclear whether a Blu-ray music disc can gain traction where SACD, HDCD, CDVU-Plus, DualDisc and DVD-A have not. |
"Forever Young -- Neil Young's long-promised archive is actually in the works and coming out on Blu-ray"
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121089705097497191.html? |
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Yuri
Joined: 28 Aug 2007 Posts: 162
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Posted: Sun Jul 06, 2008 1:04 pm Post subject: |
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Apparently it's going to be a lot more than a collection of audio recordings and will include lots of video footage.
There's a preview by Young himself here:
http://news.zdnet.com/2422-13568_22-200356.html |
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dannyjl
Joined: 23 Oct 2007 Posts: 27 Location: japan
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Posted: Tue Jul 08, 2008 11:58 am Post subject: |
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This is exciting news for the format and hope many other artists will follow with similar ambitions. As far as Neil Young though, I have absolutely no interest in him what so ever. |
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The Seventh Taylor
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Posted: Tue Jul 08, 2008 7:23 pm Post subject: |
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Agreed! I can think of a few other artists whose collected works I'd like to see issued on Blu-ray Disc. |
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Yuri
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Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2008 8:49 am Post subject: |
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More coverage here:
http://blog.wired.com/music/2008/07/neil-young-hi-r.html
Neil Young: Hi-Res Music is 'The Future.' What's the Freakin' Holdup?
Rock legend Neil Young has advice for PC manufacturers and summary other parties getting trounced in the music market: Get off the MP3 standard and go hi-res. It's a sure-fire way to differentiate yourself from what Young considers to be the currently sad state of sonic integrity.
"I think there's a huge opening for PCs here to establish themselves as the quality instrument over the convenience instrument," he explains in a video posted Wednesday on CNN Money. "I think hi-res music should come right into the earphones."
Like other professionals and fans, Young doesn't see why listeners should have to settle for crappy sound to support an industry that has plenty of tools and technologies, but no vision. "In the 21st century," he adds, "with these beautiful computers and incredible capabilities, hi-res music is one of the missing elements. [But] I think that's the future of music."
According to his chat with Time editor-in-chief John Huey, Young plans to release an exhaustive multimedia archive of his work on Blu-Ray later this fall. Just in time "for the Christmas season," the spider fan's spider-man admits. "I have a lot of content because I'm a pack rat, so I have everything I've ever done, and everything associated with it."
Whatever Young's DVD tome ends up looking like, one thing is for sure: It's going to sound awesome
Makes you wonder why he has always ignored SACD, though that's probably because he's allied with Warner. Still, he could have released far more DVD-Audio albums than the seven he did. |
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ken_wilsonii
Joined: 24 Feb 2008 Posts: 23
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Posted: Wed Oct 29, 2008 4:49 am Post subject: I like Neil Young..but |
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I have next to no dvd music videos (Weird Al I do have, that makes sense though).
Putting it on Blu-ray does not make me want to buy it as I actually listen to my music. So I need, Home, car, computer at work.
Hybrid SACD I can at least do that.
Blu-ray? How long will it take for Blu-ray to be affordable for Home, Car, computer at work. Going to need new equipment everywhere.
It would make sense if Blu-Ray offered the possibility of better sound than SACD, but it does not.
Sooo..why buy music on blu-ray?
DVD-A was pretty bad and definitely did not offer anything better than a standard cd.
Can't see myself plunking down money for this at all. |
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The Seventh Taylor
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