World's first Blu-ray record pressing

interesting...

ive got a couple of cool DVD disks for 5.1 / DTS but i suppose this will be in much higher quality (24 bit etcand no compression)

tubular bells and john michelle jarre and both pretty cool to get wasted to on a decent system :)

Now

If only i had 5 ears...

@AC

The first availble CD was I believe was an ABBA ablbum followed by a load of classicalones. I belive the 1st non classical mass release in the uk was Brothers in Arms by Dire Straits, a CD I bought only 3 months after release.

In fact I ripped it to MP3 only yesterday.

yeah to CD's

JM Jarre in 5.1 is superb.

@ Monkey - "when friends come round to your house for a meal"...?

Does "a meal" include takeaway pizza, muffins, cheesy wotsits, and cocktail sausages dipped in mayo*, if you know what I mean...? Or are you just waaaay more civilised than me?

(* try it. Seriously.)

Mine's the one with the lethal in one pocket, and the king-size rizlas in the other...

First real CD?

In 1982 Sony and Philips made the first players and CDs - you could buy.

I then worked at a Philips repair centre and I had a Philips 104 (I think) S/N 000088 - which came with a demo CD of all audio tracks in DDD (remember that on CDs???) - it had some "pop" but mostly classical - the first CD pushed for the masses was Brothers in Arms by Dire Straits - it was all DDD again and was pretty popular at the time - probably still is, I have my copy still and it is as they said in 1982 - still the same!

Regards,

Steve

First ?

I've already played the Blu-ray verions of Ghosts from Nine Inch Nails to death.

It's a shame Ghosts is not 5.1, but it plays perfect on pretty much all equipment in 2.0 96 kHz 24 bit, while for 5.1 at that bitrate you need HDMI equipment due to bandwidth limitations of the S/PDIF.

(Paris, cause I might be missing something vital that would make this a different kind of first)

Sony developed Blu-Ray, right?

Hmmm Blu-Ray Audio. Does this mean that Sony can put bigger and better rootkits on their music now?

DVD-Audio

...probably would have been a success if it had been rippable - how's that for irony? I want higher-def audio, so I'm always hoping that some engineer can sneak it past the money men and pig-faced, mouth breathing 'consumer' so that we might hear music with the clarity that modern technology actually allows.

First CD...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6950933.stm

apparently it was abba, these Scandinavian types seem to be the trend setters when it comes to this type of thing!

@ Steve Walker

I don't belive Brothers in Arms was DDD and I'd doubt most Classicals were either. Of the top of my head it was.

Digital Recording

Digital Mixing

Digital Master.

I thought Jarres Zoolookaologie was the first DDD (or was that the first pure digital disc?)

Everything old is new again

Now if there were only some way to get the Quadraphonic mixes of classic albums on 5.1 (4.1?) surround discs, that would be pretty nifty. Of course, they'd probably have to be remastered a bit more attentively than the original releases to get the separation just right.

Dire Straits

If the "Brothers in Arms" album wasn't the first, it was definitely one of the first. I know it was the first CD I had... I got it for free as part of a promo deal with Radio Shack in the US as I recall---a couple of years before I was able to afford a CD player to play it. I still have it. The sound quality of that old disc, which was one of the first to be in pure digital from master to CD, is still better than many modern releases.

The very first mini cd single?

Wasn't it (Blu) Ray of Light, by Madonna?

The Point

They need to put all those different formats on the disc, lossless or not, as there will be an audiophile somewhere that swears on his mother's grave that he can hear the difference between them.

The first CD

The first commercial CDs pressed were The Visitors by Abba and a recording of Herbert von Karajan conducting the Alpine Symphony by Richard Strauss

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6950933.stm

Interestingly, YMMV, the reason they were 74 minutes long wasn't really the need for getting all of Beethovens 9th on there. Instead it was the fact that of the two vying digital magnetic tape formats for the master recording at the time had finite runtimes. By some quirk of leveraging fate only Sonys Umatic system could hold 74 minutes (i think the other was 72 minutes).

Peter Gabriels fourth album 'Security (1982)' was a fully digital process using a hired truck complete with a full 11-bit recording studio in the back.

Re: What was the first CD record produced?

The first digital recording made for commercial release was Jean Pierre Rampal playing Telemann's Twelve Fantasias for Flute Solo. Recorded at the Saitama Kaikan Hall in Tokyo on October 30, 1972.

Recording director was Toru Yuki, recording engineer Masao Hayashi.

It was released soon after being recorded on the CBS/Columbia low-price LP line "Odyssey". In 1987 Denon released it on CD, #1790.

I don't recall the exact specifications, but iirc it the sample size was 14 bits, not the 16 bits adopted for CDs a decade later. Also, the sampling rate was lower than the CD standard of 44.something kHz. It goes without saying that it was digitally transformed to the CD standard. The sound is just fine, thank you very much.

Somewhere I've seen a photo of Denon's experimental digital recorder: it filled a rack full of electronics; today the same function is probably on a single chip.

re: Sony developed Blu-Ray, right?

"Dave" you really are an imbecile.

Still it's nice you have come from behind your AC mask..

Sony didn't soley develop Blu-ray, it was a very large consortium of Japanese manufacturers, google for BDA.

As for Rootkits, talk about blowing something out of all proportion, I suggest you read and inwardly digest some facts about the incident, you might then realise how pathetic your post looks.

Paris, as she knows a prick when she sees one.

Brothers in Arms was the first DDD, not the first release

Seeing as the CD format was made commercially available in 1982, and BIA was released in 1985. I got my first CD player in '83 and the first rock CD I got for it was Dark Side of the Moon...

Audiophilia

I'm actually one of those 'wackos' that feels that 44.1khz/16-bit digital is inadequate to provide the qualities I want in an audio recording. Given Britain's strong history of support for the audio industry, I would have expected more like-minded souls commenting here.

I'm a big fan of SACD, but with the rise of DVD and the iPod, the commercial prospects haven't been looking very good the last few years.

Which is why I had also been hoping that now that BD's become the new hi-def consumer video standard, Sony could do something with BluRay to revitalize the market for a next generation/hi-def audio format. It's just a pity to me that with all that storage/bandwidth available, the first independent effort squanders it by just putting a bunch of similiar copies on one disk.

Granted, there is no BD-approved way of encoding >192khz/24bit audio on BD, but why not make it part of the next revision of the BD standard? Goodness knows they've revised that standard enough times by now, and I doubt most TV-watchers will care that their £50 video player won't play 384khz/30-bit audio..