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In Reply to: RE: As of 2/13: posted by timothywas1@comcast.net on February 20, 2009 at 13:44:53
Unkept ones: it isn't the first time, although, in Pioneer's current condition, it may very well be their last. Remember their initial Blu-ray player releases? We'll get DTS-HD to ya. Yea, yea, sure ya will. Well, they didn't. Why would this time be any different, especially since they're closing shop on their plasma business and are looking to off-load their DVD player production?
Lossless accounts for 75.5% of the audio on Blu-ray and DTS-HD MA accounts for 36.5% of the lossless soundtracks. In other words, DTS-HD MA accounts for more lossless soundtracks than Dolby TrueHD and LPCM.
Hellooo...
Pioneeer...
Can ya hear me now?
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Hello Joe...And I for one am not going to try and defend those that deliver empty promises. I do feel its a sad state of affairs with the economy and all and I for one have always felt Pioneers CRT television displays as well as their plasmas were some of the best out there, so its a sad day for me to see their vested interests exiting that arena.
Those stats are interesting and thanks for the link in breaking it all down. When I think about it all as a whole, the free download via the Internet, with websites like Piratesbay.com and such offering up just about any free movie or music download available, its amazing anyone is buying anything anymore.
As for me myself, I purchase most all my software at Borders and Barnes and Noble for variety and selection, not to mention the Koss headphones to sample the music etc. My point being; nobody does nothing for nothing and eventually, {its my feeling its happening already} the artists begin to thin out and the artistry behind the media, like music for example, becomes much more difficult to receive recognition, call it a lack of revenue. Maybe its my generational bias kicking in, but I feel music in particular was much better in the 60s, 70s and 80s on a creative as well as musical level. All pre digital download era.
See threads above for more info on this threat, and that's what I see it as, a threat if downloading takes over. I really do enjoy collecting the physical media { think vinyl} in assembling video and music libraries a great deal, this often overlooked aspect keeps my interest peaked in my participation of this hobby.
I must go now... and I will be looking forward to my new and very affordable BDP51FD and its performance as I received it yesterday. At the worst case scenario, Ill just have to buy another Pioneer AV for decoding. Such is life. ; )
Thanks again, to all those who responded...
Regards,
/// Tim W. ///
Edits: 02/21/09 02/21/09
Im not happy to see Pioneer fall down. I hate that they have partnered with Sharp (aka the Japanese Samsung), but in order for them to continue they had to do something (though Panasonic would have been a much better choice). Their business model just didn't cut it in these trying times.
As for your other comments, I'm not a vinyl person, but I do feel that the digital age severely hampered creativity and originality. It became too easy to produce and too easy to copy. Why work hard when you can just grab a sample here, patch in a sample there and smooth it over everywhere. My musical tastes tend to be mid-70s through late 80s/very early 90s. By the 90s, it really didn't matter what radio station you listened to -- they all played pretty much the same crap (literally and figuratively).
I was kinda hoping that satellite radio would change that and, for a while, I feel it did. However, XM and Sirius have been a losing proposition financially. The merger didn't help because #1, sound quality took a nose dive (if you didn't think it was worth listening to before the merger, it's worse now -- how Sirius subscribers put up with that shit I don't know and, even worse, the nerve of some of them to say there was either no quality difference between Sirius and XM or that Sirius sounded better takes all of the cake!) and #2, they eliminated many of the XM stations that were better than their Sirius counterparts.
I mention that because there was such a huge audience that satellite radio could cater to. You paid for it, so they didn't rely on advertising as much (which, ironically, contributed to its financial woes) and they could offer numerous genres to select from. No way could or would FM or AM radio ever do that. Alas, post merger, me thinks it sucks donkey dicks now because of the cuts, changes and "Sirius" mentality that has taken over (XM was much better). My subscription has two more months -- and that's definitely it for me. My music collection is getting ripped to a 1TB hard drive and I'm getting one of the iPod-to-car radio products. My 5th Gen 60GB iPod with Video is going in the car (I just got an 8GB 3rd Gen Nano that I'll use at work), so I'll just have to make do with a paltry selection of 800+ discs to choose from. And that's definitely a positive thing about the digital age -- I'm getting a DJ that doesn't talk and plays all of my favorite artists. Can't beat that!
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