Comments on: Blu-spec: Sony's latest CD format
Just what we needed: a supposedly improved CD specification. Sony Music Entertainment has launched Blu-spec in Japan and is selling Blu-spec CDs for a few of its well-known artists.
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- by NYCgoalie February 24, 2009 10:26 AM PST
- This "blu-spec" is just bogus to me.
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Showing 2 of 2 pages (45 Comments)So the "pits" and "grooves" on a CD are better. How is THAT suppose to make the sound better?? And the use of "superior" materials for the SHM format....gimme a break!!
Blu-Ray disc offer several audio coding schemes, with PCM audio (uncompressed track) being provided for with up to 24-bit resolution. These new "Blu-Spec" disc aren't even going to touch that!!
Sony has dropped the ball here. What they should do is offer Blu-Ray albums. They could have the uncompressed tracks, followed by a 5 or 7 channel version of the tracks, followed by the same tracks in high quality MP3's...ALL ON THE SAME DISC!!!! There's more than enough room for the disc to handle the data!!! And you might even have room to throw a video or two on there; at the very least screenshots with lyrics and photos. Not to mention that you have pre-installed DRM (how many protable blu-ray players can you think of?)
Create a true Blue-Ray CD with the features I've mentioned above and for the few people who still buy CD's, this would be a worthy alternative.