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That was for the Archives set not the Fork In The Road album.[I was talking about the Fork In The Road blu ray]
I saw in the latest Rolling Stone that Neil's new album'll be coming out in the blu ray format in the not too very distant future.
I got my Neil Young Archives "Sampler" Blu-Ray Saturday.
It's stereo only and includes the material from 1965 and before. Demos and tracks recorded with his early friends. There's an early demo of "Sugar Mountain", and you can really hear the "youth" in his voice. A scant few years later his voice will have filled in nicely.
The gist of the setup is basically a filing cabinet that slides open. You use your remote to move a red "round sticker" to the manilla file folder and and hit select. A file card appears displaying the track info. There's a button to press for lyrics which appear full screen in a notebook. The pages are fluid and do not interupt the music.
The sound is 24/192 stereo. This should be the advantage over the DVD and CD. If it's not important to you, then the regular DVD should be fine.
I did not try the BD Live yet.
Check it out:
DVD - Through a Pioneer 563A and a Panasonic F87 Massey Hall DVD displays 24/96 on my HK amp. I can't get Sugar Mountain to do the same, it will display in 48KHz only...anyone else with this problem?
Clear as mud am I - Pioneer DVD player recognizes 24/96 and I assume this is good through the analog outputs. When I switch to digital coax the amp will not recognize 24/96 from Sugar Mountain - Live At Canterbury House 1968 (amp displays 48KHz only) as it does with Massey Hall 1971 (amp displays 96KHz), although the Pioneer does display 24/96 with both.I'm referring to the individual DVD's. Massey Hall 1971 & Sugar Mountain - Live At Canterbury House 1968
Sugar Mountain Live At Canterbury House 1968 - I can't get the DVD players to recognize 24/96 with this disc.
Blu Ray will remain prohibitively expensive for ALL releases that are not major studio Hollywood titles.
It is simply too expensive to produce - and if you don;t believe me, go ask anyone who set up to author them.
Most - around 99% - are losing money on a $250,000 investment in software, hardware & annual AACS site licenses/BluRay logo usage fees (yep, this is also a mandatory annual fee)
and the gear is sat there doing nothing because it is too expensive by the time all the mandatory AACS/BD+ and other crap is factored in.
The final AACS license also addresses one of the most frequents complaints small studios and replicators had about Blu-ray: the license fees. As summarized in a note by Sonic Solutions, AACS fees have dropped for all content holders, but the biggest savings are for first-time and low-volume publishers.
These are the fees and how they change:
AACS Content Provider Agreement Fee: this is the fee that a studio or content holder must pay to become an AACS Content Provider. It used to be $3,000 up front. Now it is payable in annual $500 increments, and the Content Provider can terminate its agreement at any time. This one change makes it possible for first-time and low volume content holders to get going with BD with a much lower start-up investment and at affordable per-title costs.
Content Certificate and Order Fulfilment Fee: this fee is for each glass master produced. It has dropped from $1,300 per title to $500 per title.
Media fee: this fee is applied for each disc replicated, and it stays unchanged at $0.04 per disc.
For example, the AACS costs for a first-time Blu-ray Disc publisher (for a run of 2,000 copies) has dropped from $4,380 (3,000 + 1,300 + 0.04 * 2,000) to just $1,080 (500 + 500 + 0.04 * 2,000), that is to say, a saving of over 75%.
For a publisher that has already been publishing on BD and hence has already paid his Content Provider Agreement Fee, the fees to publish a run of 2,000 units have dropped from $1,380 to just $580.
Neil hated the first CDs. But he has embraced DVD-A and now Blu-Ray. To me, the reason is simple. The higher the sampling rate and bit rate used for a transfer, the closer one comes to the original wave form, correct?
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