In Reply to: There's no reason why it wouldn't be possible on Blu-Ray. posted by oscar on April 24, 2007 at 06:19:26:
Given the outrageous cost of Blu Ray replication (In the UK, Sony DADC are the only licensed replication company) and the basic licenses are £20,000 up front.
This is before per unit replication, before authoring (remember that Scenarist 4 is the *only* package that can be used for commercial release, as none of the others are any good for anything except BD-R.There is also a spec change coming on October 31, making BD-i support amongst other things mandatory.
This may well affect all existing players.
See http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=6702Additionally, no other audio except LPCM or Dolby Digital and DTS core audio is actually mandated for Blu Ray, so there are a vast majority of players that will not ever support DTS-HD MAS, Dolby True HD, so where is the High Rez?
Personally, I don't give a short, sharp one about video. All I care about is the *music*, and DVD-A works just fine for that.
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- Re: There's no reason why it wouldn't be possible on Blu-Ray. - Neil Wilkes 11:11:03 04/24/07 (1)
- We are already starting to get a handful of music concert goodies on Blu-Ray/HD-DVD. - oscar 16:18:50 04/24/07 (0)