Dualdisc the next big thing?

[Chris]

I've noticed that many of the albums comin' out today are Dualdiscs.
I was a little curious about this, and it really looks like its the next big thing in the music business.

So do you think its here to stay?

[Cloud No.9]

dvd will be replaced with one of the high definiton dvd replacements like blu-ray or hd-dvd. so dual disk has a short future. i think sacd hybrid tends to be more popular just now than dual disc.

[jrgen]

What's a dual disc?

[Luara]

What's a dual disc?

LOL, ahahahah!
dual disc is... .... um... O.o oh, well... >.<

[jrgen]

What's a dual disc?

LOL, ahahahah!
dual disc is... .... um... O.o oh, well... >.<

Thank you for that input.

[Luara]

What's a dual disc?

LOL, ahahahah!
dual disc is... .... um... O.o oh, well... >.<

Thank you for that input.

.. I dont know either

[Markus. D]

i was weirded out by the topic name, till i read the first post.

i thought you meant those "fruit" toys called dual disks from that "...fruitfull" show named Yu-Gi-Oh.

[eestlinc]

it's a two sided disc, cd on one side, dvd on the other. I think they are annoying because you don't have a "safe" side as both sides contain data.

[Chris]

I agree. You have to be very careful when you lift the CD.

[Cloud No.9]

which why hybrid sacd's are more practical.

[Chris]

Sacd CDs doesn't play on computers... I bought Björk's "Medulla" sacd edition and it didn't even start on my computer.

[Cloud No.9]

hybrids do.

[Rye]

it's a two sided disc, cd on one side, dvd on the other. I think they are annoying because you don't have a "safe" side as both sides contain data.

[Yamaneko]

The current Compact Disc format is here to stay for a long while. It just doesn't make sense to record music onto high capacity removable media like HD-DVD and Blu-ray since, A) Average album length has not changed much since the introduction of the CD in the late eighties (very rarely is the 80 minutes of recordable audio ever used), and B) Most home users still use a Stereo setup as opposed to a 5.1 or 6.1 Dolby Digital setup, and most "artists" are still opposed to recording in anything other than Stereo.

The future of the music industry is going to be shared among traditional forms of production, the CD SACD, and purely digital forms of distribution, some legal, others illegal.

[eestlinc]

but CDs degrade and lose data after 10 years or so. Which is pretty crappy. I know I started collecting CDs in 1994, so probably some of my oldest ones are about to die.