24 bit, art & graphics included, DRM and wide compatibility with equipment... you've just described DVD-Audio, which failed. Nobody bought it.
In any case, the market for such a format would be limited to those people: - who actually care about the higher resolution, which is a tiny number of audiophiles, AND - who don't care about the fact that it's encrypted, which I strongly suspect rules out most of those. Commercial suicide, in other words. Have any figures ever been released, which show a sudden and permanent drop in DVD sales following the release of DeCSS? It's an interesting controlled experiment; DVDs went from being difficult or impossible to copy, to being trivial to copy, almost overnight. Did the movie industry ever actually back up their whining about it with any actual figures? Has it, perhaps, occurred to you that all the formats which are commercially successful are also easy to copy - while SACD and DVD-Audio (which are not easy to copy) are the ones which have been failures? Don't get me wrong - I'd [ay good money for 24-bit, audiophile quality recordings - but only as long as they're of music that I'd have actually bought anyway, and provided they're in an open, non-proprietary, unencrypted format. -- AndyC_772 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ AndyC_772's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10472 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34928 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
