Couldn't wait.../misc.

[Paul Mather]

On Sun, 6 Dec 1998, M@ wrote:

=> I doubt they'd use the quadraphonic tracks as bonus tracks, since the tracks
=> probably wouldn't sound right on 2-track stereo--just...different.
=>
=> I keep waiting to for someone to start up a company re-releasing all those
=> old quadraphonic mixes re-coded for Dolby surround sound.  Dolby-DTS at least
=> has made an initial effort, doing Alan Parsons' "On Air" among others.  (See
=> http://www.dtsonline.com for more details.)  Of course, there has to be a
=> market for that before they'll get around to doing the BOC stuff, and
=> Dolby/DTS is trying to build it.  It will probably be more feasible in two or
=> three years, as more people buy DVD players and invest in 5.1 channel home
=> theater systems.

Actually, one of the subcodes (along with the likes of "copy permit",
"pre-emphasis", etc.) encoded on Red Book CD audio is "four channel",
which is set to "no" for every music CD I've come across.  But I guess
this implies you could encode quadraphonic programme material on CDs (or
at least they were thinking about this when defining the standard).

Playing it is another matter entirely, I guess... ;-)

Yet more useless trivia from the keyboard of,

Paul.

e-mail: paul at gromit.dlib.vt.edu

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