[SurroundSound] Re: Looks Like Quadraphonic all over again

Took a peek at Rhino's web site . It appears the two titles released
are it for their Quadro series. All the upcoming stuff is high res
stereo. I think betting on SW may not be a good bet seeing what
happened with the Aqualung mix which was not really surround per say.

Also with the dying hard copy music industry going to the cloud based
marketing idea without a good way to stream true surround it is a
dying format again.

Hobbyists however will keep the interest alive with past things and
the archiving of OOP material.

On May 28, 3:10 pm, scolumbo <sacolu...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I think we've settled into a trend:
>
> For all intents and purposes DVD-A is now officially dead. Yes, there may
> be a KC re-release here or there, but SW has moved on to Blu-ray, so the
> format that has been hanging on life support should now be declared dead.
> We'll continue to see user-created DVD-A's consisting of Quad transfers,
> upmixes, etc. but very little else.
>
> Despite premature reports of its demise, SACD is hanging on with hi-rez
> stereo releases and a few MCH re-releases. SHM-SACD is the biggest
> marketing baloney to come along in awhile, but it's keeping the SACD format
> alive.
>
> The real battle for what little surround music is released is between lossy
> DTS and DD on DVD-V, and lossless DTS-HD and Dolby TrueHD on Blu-ray.
> Concert videos continue to be released on Blu-ray, but for primarily
> audio-only releases, DVD-V seems to be favored by too many labels. While
> there are a few really good DVD-V releases (Chicago Transit Authority on
> Rhino's Quadio label comes to mind), there are far too many that sound
> mediocre at best.  Fortunately, we have a few artists/labels that
> understand the value of lossless (thank the gods for Steven Wilson).
>
> Multi-channel downloads also seem to be missing in action. This baffles me,
> but I still hold out hope that this is how surround music will survive in
> the long-term. We may be seeing the dying throes of physical media and
> artists/labels are wringing out the last dollar they can with expensive box
> sets before digital downloads become the norm. Let's hope that means in a
> hi-rez, lossless format.

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