Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on August 04, 2003 01:00 AM
...is for the Recording Industry to move to 96Khz/192Khz 5.1/7.1 surround sound DVD audio format. DVD audio will ensure that filesizes are sufficiently large > 10Meg/song which makes downloading and/or trading sufficiently painful. Movie p2p is still miniscule compared to audio p2p precisely because movie file sizes are large that it's not easy on dialup or even 250Kb/500Kb broadband.
Since majority of the consumers now own DVD players, you should be able to play DVD audio music without any penalty of having to buy new hardware for the home (or even computer)
The move to a better format solves the problem of justifying costs for music....$15 for 7.1 channel 192Khz sound means that you're getting a better product compared to stereo.
Ofcourse this means that the auto industry or personal electronics industry has to move to supporting new DVD audio formats. To enable people to afford DVD audio players in cars or portable DVD players, the music industry can give you a $5.00 rebate and you can collect enough rebates to apply them towards purchase of the DVD player. So if a Car DVD player costs $50, you just need to purchase 10 DVD audio disks at full price and your car dvd player is free. The music industry also subsidizes hardware vendors so that effectively the whole electronics and music industry move out of a funk.
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on August 04, 2003 01:00 AMSince majority of the consumers now own DVD players, you should be able to play DVD audio music without any penalty of having to buy new hardware for the home (or even computer)
The move to a better format solves the problem of justifying costs for music....$15 for 7.1 channel 192Khz sound means that you're getting a better product compared to stereo.
Ofcourse this means that the auto industry or personal electronics industry has to move to supporting new DVD audio formats. To enable people to afford DVD audio players in cars or portable DVD players, the music industry can give you a $5.00 rebate and you can collect enough rebates to apply them towards purchase of the DVD player.
So if a Car DVD player costs $50, you just need to purchase 10 DVD audio disks at full price and your car dvd player is free. The music industry also subsidizes hardware vendors so that effectively the whole electronics and music industry move out of a funk.
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