Is the music industries fate in the hands of high-def media producers?
Is the high-def medium the next golden market for the music industry? We don't know but we aren't exactly what you could consider experts on the music scene. But just think about the iPod generation and their love affair with low-quality but highly portable music. Is high-quality music on HD DVDs or Blu-ray going to spur sales alone? Debbie Block (pictured) from eMediaLive thinks so but only if they add video. You see, before the iPod-gen came around there were the MTV kids that actually watched MTV for the videos and Ms. Block believes that this is the key. The music industry is going to need to team up with a high-def media and produce discs that are going to appeal to this crowd. The iPod generation already has the portable scene wrapped up with cheap, white headphones but there is a whole new market opening up in living rooms and media rooms across the country and it is all thanks to high definition. Keep in mind that this was tried before but failed thanks to another format war between SACD and DVD Audio. Maybe the third time will do the trick.Would you buy a music HD DVD/Blu-ray disc for use in your home?
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Chris @ Sep 11th 2006 3:02PM
I'm 25 years old and I don't know if I'd be considered from the iPod generation or the MTV generation but I'm a huge fan of high quality surround sound music, whether it be on SACD, DVD-A, Dual Disc etc. I would definitely buy high res music on either BRD or HD-DVD (hopefully the latter since I own and HD-A1) but I don't believe that high res music needs to be paired with HD video. Don't get me wrong, it would be nice but the majority of current format high res music that I own doesnt have video and I'm fine with that. The few albums that do have video are generally live performances which IMO sound much worse than a remastered studio album (IE Pink Floyds DSOTM SACD).
Aron @ Sep 11th 2006 4:00PM
Agreed!
Rick Lyon @ Sep 11th 2006 6:46PM
Yea, right, MTV actually played music videos?? HAHAHAHA
Dave @ Sep 11th 2006 11:20PM
High resolution music doesn't need to be paired with video: the focus is the MUSIC. It doesn't even need to be in surround, and usually shouldn't be. The reason that SACD and DVD-A tanked is because of their ludicrous copy protection. Nobody is going to buy anything that they can't make of a copy of so they can play it in their car or on their mp3 player. The Monster Superdiscs are almost a good idea, in that they carry mp3 versions of the songs, but the audio quality is not great enough.
Most music lovers want to buy good quality music, we just don't want to get bent over by stupid copy protection.
For the record, I'm 23, have a ~5,000 dollar STEREO system and would love to pay money for more high quality, high resolution music for it. Don't leave me hanging, or ruin it by making it overly difficult to have a burnt copy in my car, (so I don't have to worry about it getting scratched or stolen).
Paul_AV @ Sep 12th 2006 10:04AM
In Dolby TrueHD or DTS-HD Master Audio? Yes.
Aaron @ Sep 12th 2006 10:00PM
I would LOVE to buy a high-def media player, on one condition.
Both BD/HD camps get together and end this stupid format war which will ultimately make them both fail much like DVD-A/SACD failed horribly.
Universal players wont save them here, as there were many of those and they didn't help DVD-A/SACD sales at all and now both SACD/DVD-A are pretty much dead. Its a pity because either one when properly mastered sounded outstanding, particularly on a really good HT system. Pink Floyd DSOTM, Queen A Night At The Opera I'm looking at you.
Its like the old train track scenario. Long long ago there were different track widths and rail sizes that meant that trains couldn't run on every track. This made train transit/shipping unviable for a large part of the US.
Finally all the railroad companies agreed on how the track should be made, redid the railroads to this new standard, and ALL companies profits exploded as a veritable golden age was ushered in for rail transit.
This is the same scenario, if theres one standard everyone will stick to all the content producers will get on board and everyone will win. Right now nobody wins.