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Post by Deleted on Feb 23, 2019 14:02:12 GMT
Hoofy:
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Post by Brick Wall on Feb 23, 2019 14:21:46 GMT
STEVE - Hello. Sony? I'd like to talk to the SACD department.
Sony - Who you?
STEVE - This is Steve Hoffman from Audio Fidelity. I'd like to talk to the main dude.
Sony - *click*
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Post by jeatletoes on Feb 23, 2019 15:14:39 GMT
I'm going to have a happy-crappy in about 30 minutes.
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Post by Chicken in Black on Feb 23, 2019 23:45:33 GMT
COLA is correct. SACD was a program conceived by their audio hardware division without any input from Sony Music. The patents for the CD were supposed to enter public domain after 20 years? They assumed they just needed to start a "better" format, with new patents, and things would work out by themselves.
They were desperate for high profile catalogs, which is why ABKCO managed to make them bankroll their remasters of the Rolling Stones, of their Sam Cooke catalog and a few other releases, even if most of the improvement came from using better tapes than on the old CDs, while the Rolling Stones stuff produced by Andrew Loog Oldham is anything but demo quality material for the format. The most ridiculous releases however were the Arista/RCA catalog for The Kinks, which had already been remastered six or seven years before. Koch actually reused the artwork and the bonus tracks from the earlier versions, released on Velvel. As these were hardly best sellers (we're talking about "Schoolboys in Disguise" or "Preservation Act II"), the label basically siphoned money from Sony.
It's no wonder that STeVE would want more of the sweet Sony money.
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Post by daved on Feb 24, 2019 0:24:35 GMT
It died because it was the equivalent of adding one more molecule of sauce to an already tasty bowl of pasta. No one could tell the fucking difference.
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Post by AnalogRearEnd on Feb 24, 2019 1:50:46 GMT
You're not insinuating that Daddy would lie to us, are you? That he pulled the whole thing out of his flabby white ass?
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Post by Chicken in Black on Feb 24, 2019 4:03:05 GMT
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Post by bradman on Feb 24, 2019 4:52:35 GMT
Interesting, thanks for the link. Ive always liked those,and they can be found cheap. That entire era is underrated, imho. I think the DRM/copy protection angle was a part of Sonys' strategy, as well. |
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