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Re: Another way to go about this...

Presto,

You wrote:

> [W]ith a program called "re-sample" you can do
> the same thing - upsample to 24/96, 24/192 - there
> is even a 32 bit depth! To get the upsampled
> wav files onto a DVD you can use DiscWelder Bronze
> to burn your very own DVD-A's. (I have resample
> but never did get around to authoring my own DVD-A's).

That's an intriguing thought -- mastering 24/192 to
DVD-A. (More is always better, right? ;-> )

But the great thing about DVD-V is that the
24/96 LPCM is (more or less) in the free-and-clear --
transmissible over S/PDIF in the usual way.
Somebody snuck that one past the RIAA (thank
heaven!).

DVD-A, unfortunately, is locked up tight.
You're stuck with an integrated player, or you
have to go with somebody's proprietary interlink
(like the MSB Network). Not a lot of fun.
Maybe encrypted ( :-( ) HDMI will solve this
problem in a few years, but with hi-rez music software
being yanked from the shelves at Tower, I'm
not holding my breath (I'm happy to have SACD and DVD-A,
but did Sony/Philips and the DVD Consortium
**really** think they were going to engineer
a repeat of the 1985-1995 CD buying splurge,
and the 1998-present success of movies on DVD?
Get real, folks! My crystal ball tells me the industry
is in for a repeat of the same hard lesson with
Blu-Ray or HD-DVD high-def movies. I'll be glad
to have 'em, but the masses aren't gonna splurge
for high-def the way they did for the original
DVDs. And the business is going to shoot itself
in the foot worrying about piracy, just like it
did with high-rez audio -- folks who bought wonderful
new HDTVs in 2001 aren't going to be at all pleased
to find out they have to buy new HDCP-encryption-
compatible sets in order to watch high-def movies
on HD-DVD.)

Jim F.



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