How cool would it be to see a 24 bit lossless minidisc type format come about, lets call it 24D. Label /Artist produced pre-recorded commercial 24D album copies would be made available as well as recordable blanks. A digital format with phenomenal sound quality combined with the minidisc's intuitive easy-to-use editing and durability, and with the tangibility and collectiblity of vinyl. Portable players, home decks. Keyboard input, computer connectivity of course. Yay, hardware!
Sony?s Optical Disc Archive: 30 Blu-ray discs in a 1.5TB MiniDisc-like cassette
imagine this unit in a minidisc style deck format
Some pre-recorded commercial minidisc lps:
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Reply from Velktron on tapeheads.net minidisc forum
"How cool would it be to see a 24 bit minidisc type format come about, lets call it 24D. Label /Artist produced pre-recorded commerical 24D album copies would be made available??
So far, this would get the attention of the majors in a good way...
... as well as recordable blanks. A digital format with incredible editing, soundquality?
?and this is where you'd suddenly lose them and turn them hostile: it has been made absolutely clear during the past 25 years that they DO NOT want consumers to have access to a standalone, music-dedicated, easy-to-use, distributable and affordable, lossless recordable medium (remember DAT?)
The reason they allowed standalone CD-R recorders is because CD-R didn't satisfy some of the above points: it was not easy to use (it's a write-once affair, even with CD-RW), units were not cheap, and consumer editions onlly used overpriced blanks (which weren't even available above 60-minute lengths at first...plus truly lossless CD-to-CD copies were not possible with audio CD recorders). And because there was much pressure by the personal computer market already using CDs as high-capacity storage medium.
MD and DCC were tolerated because they were not lossless, as were analog tapes (though recently they have toughened up their stance so much that if for some reason the analog CC wasn't invented and was introduced anew today, they would block it too!). Stuff like PCM adapters using VCR as transports were left alone because they did not result in a practical distribution format.
But make no mistake: they HATE that RECORD key in any form and quality. They won't be happy until all consumer devices are playback-only (and as for computer software, one day "Trusted Computing" coupled with "Walled Garden" models for consumer software might give them the control they so far lacked.
Having said that...I think they might allow a limited run of read-only "24D" cartridges which will probably be SACD or DVD-Audio in disguise (for the novelty factor) to be made, but never consent to give the consumer a powerful standalone lossless audio recordable medium, especially not after the precedents of the DMCA and the TPP.
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Anyone here see a way it could still come about? Maybe a variation on the theme? Ideas?
