Has anyone read about DualDisc on page 5 of the January issue of Stereophile? Here are some snippets:---
Many of the event participants say they will now be pushing DualDisc; as a Warner Special Products producer noted during one of the panel discussions, "DVD-Audio will disappear".
The slightly thicker discs will get stuck in some slot-loading CD players. Any customer who has to have his car dealer extract a DualDisc from his car system is a customer lost forever.
Industy insiders admit that the DualDisc CD layer causes the error correction of your CD player to work overtime while deciphering the slightly fuzzy pits and lands on the disc. The CD layer of a NEW DualDisc is basically the equivalent to an unwashed and somewhat slightly dazed regular CD that's 5 years old.
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So this is what they want to replace DVD-A and SACD with? What the hell are they thinking? Worse yet, the idea is to eventually phase out the high-resolution audio in favor of videos. So we'll be stuck with less music due to the 60 minute limitation on the CD side and a bunch of music videos on the DVD side. Give 'em less and charge 'em more seems to be the motto here. And they wonder why people download music? Sheesh.
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Topic - DualDisc is the 8-track of our Era - a/d/s Sat7 03:23:49 12/29/04 (28)
- There are STILL fans (and users) of 8-tracks - Dave Pogue 05:31:46 12/29/04 (3)
- woth collecting? nt - Duilawyer 07:07:55 12/29/04 (2)
- Lord, no! - Dave Pogue 07:24:05 12/29/04 (1)
- Actually they are not too bad ... - Christine Tham 13:19:23 12/29/04 (0)
- Hope it dies a quick death - navman 07:28:50 12/29/04 (2)
- Re: " greedy ". There's nothing greedy about labels giving consumers the complete album in DVD-A surround and stereo ... - ZS KEKL 09:43:37 12/29/04 (1)
- Re: " greedy ". There's nothing greedy about labels giving consumers the complete album in DVD-A surround and stereo ... - Neil Wilkes 12:01:29 12/29/04 (0)
- A limit of 60 minutes for Red Book Cd should kill it! (nt) - JCS 08:38:22 12/29/04 (6)
- CD side has more than 65 minutes available . This is enough for almost every Rock , Pop , Country , and Rap album ... - ZS KEKL 10:02:02 12/29/04 (5)
- is Aerosmith rock? - tunenut 12:40:28 12/29/04 (4)
- "ALMOST every album ..." is correct . Only a very tiny % of the total number of Rock, Pop, Country, and Rap, albums ... - ZS KEKL 14:54:31 12/29/04 (1)
- Dual DualDiscs???? - racerguy 19:40:37 12/29/04 (0)
- And did those fit on a single LP ? nt - Frank.. 12:48:36 12/29/04 (1)
- no way - tunenut 13:28:11 12/29/04 (0)
- Re: DualDisc is the 8-track of our Era - jimby 11:04:47 12/29/04 (13)
- Interesting point of view - Eric LeRouge 01:51:52 12/30/04 (0)
- "Dual Discs do NOT exceed the thickness spec for CDs and DVDs. Period. End of story." - racerguy 15:40:05 12/29/04 (0)
- Corporate Weasle - rebop 15:03:28 12/29/04 (7)
- Read errors . . . - Martin419 16:45:43 12/29/04 (0)
- Re: Corporate Weasle - unaffiliated 15:31:30 12/29/04 (5)
- "Am I missing something, here?" - Metralla 17:09:27 12/29/04 (3)
- Yes... - Frank.. 23:26:18 12/29/04 (2)
- Thanks Frank - Metralla 00:19:06 12/30/04 (1)
- Re: Thanks Frank - Frank.. 01:45:42 12/30/04 (0)
- Re: Corporate Weasle - Martin419 17:07:33 12/29/04 (0)
- Re: DualDisc is the 8-track of our Era - Christine Tham 13:44:23 12/29/04 (2)
- SKU? - Metralla 22:02:05 12/29/04 (1)
- SKU = stock keeping unit (nt) - Christine Tham 22:39:11 12/29/04 (0)