Bluray Audio

Bababouey
Bababouey Posts: 129
edited January 2011 in Music & Movies
I just got a copy of Tom Petty's Mojo album on bluray audio.
It is outstanding.
The guitars are so crisp and clean, the bass nad percusion are punchy.
I am totally impressed.
Glen
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  • mantis
    mantis Posts: 17,312
    edited January 2011
    Is it Audio only? If so I'm so in.
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  • mantis
    mantis Posts: 17,312
    edited January 2011
    I have not dug into this topic yet but I have heard it talked about. SACD and DVD AUDIO fell on their faces for the general public , this will probably do the same as the general public doesn't seem to put as much stock into high quality audio as they do with video.

    I hate this but it's fact. As being Blu ray format and not having to buy a "special" player I can see this at least surviving for a while. I hope many artists realize that this can really show off their music in great detail.

    I long for something like this to have all the artists I enjoy listening to.
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  • Slinger182
    Slinger182 Posts: 512
    edited January 2011
    http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Tom-Petty-and-the-Heartbreakers-Mojo-Blu-ray/11657/#Review

    It's audio only.
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  • cheddar
    cheddar Posts: 2,390
    edited January 2011
    mantis wrote: »
    I have not dug into this topic yet but I have heard it talked about. SACD and DVD AUDIO fell on their faces for the general public , this will probably do the same as the general public doesn't seem to put as much stock into high quality audio as they do with video.

    I hate this but it's fact. As being Blu ray format and not having to buy a "special" player I can see this at least surviving for a while. I hope many artists realize that this can really show off their music in great detail.

    I long for something like this to have all the artists I enjoy listening to.

    The beauty of blu-ray for audio is that there is no special format needed to support DVD-Audio two-channel quality all the way from two channels to 7.1 channels. It's the same high resolution PCM. DTS-HD MA and TrueHD just losslessly compress and uncompress the PCM to make it fit in a smaller footprint.

    So artists just have to invest in mastering their stuff to play in lossless audio. Every blu-ray player is already a high resolution audio player so mass adoption of the hardware is already taking place.
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  • DMara
    DMara Posts: 1,434
    edited January 2011
    The DTS-HD 5.1 soundtrack included in the Inception Special Features bluray disc is a good example of how good Bluray audio sounds.
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  • erniejade
    erniejade Posts: 6,321
    edited January 2011
    So this will only play on a BR player and not a regular redbook player? Or will it play on both like some of the sacd's?
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  • cheddar
    cheddar Posts: 2,390
    edited January 2011
    erniejade wrote: »
    So this will only play on a BR player and not a regular redbook player? Or will it play on both like some of the sacd's?

    Blu-ray lossless will not play in a regular CD player as both the lossless format and the blu-ray disk are incompatible. It would have to have a separate CD bundled instead. However, from the link above, there appears to be a digital copy download available with the purchase.
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  • Bababouey
    Bababouey Posts: 129
    edited January 2011
    I purchased Mojo from amazon.ca for around $26.00.
    It only plays on bluray player.
    I agree it has great that you don't need to buy a special bluray player to play it.
    The packaging states that disc has 256 times more resolution than a regular CD.
    Glen
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  • danger boy
    danger boy Posts: 15,722
    edited January 2011
    i thought blu ray audio was dead?

    seriously, i hadn't heard anything about it in well over a year. so not dead huh? are there more then a handful of titles out yet?
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  • BlueFox
    BlueFox Posts: 15,251
    edited January 2011
    danger boy wrote: »
    i thought blu ray audio was dead?

    I suspect it is just getting started. Neil Young is currently redoing all his music in Bluray. The first set has been released, and hopefully will soon release the rest. While it is on other formats, that is more of a nod to their existence. Bluray is the main reason for his effort.

    I sure hope Sony releases a player to replace the XA5400ES that also supports Bluray along with SACD. Getting the high res Bluray files out the balanced stereo outputs into the two channel system will be pure heaven.
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  • danz1906
    danz1906 Posts: 5,144
    edited January 2011
    DMara wrote: »
    The DTS-HD 5.1 soundtrack included in the Inception Special Features bluray disc is a good example of how good Bluray audio sounds.
    Agreed,that soundtrack was great!

    danger boy wrote: »
    i thought blu ray audio was dead?

    seriously, i hadn't heard anything about it in well over a year. so not dead huh? are there more then a handful of titles out yet?

    I think that Blu-Ray audio is doing good with Classical Music.
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  • danger boy
    danger boy Posts: 15,722
    edited January 2011
    danz1906 wrote: »
    I think that Blu-Ray audio is doing good with Classical Music.



    which make perfect sense... the old DVD-Audio format began the same way.. a good amount of the music released was classical - must be a good market there.
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