{"id":993,"date":"2013-06-17T12:32:52","date_gmt":"2013-06-17T19:32:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.realhd-audio.com\/?p=993"},"modified":"2013-06-17T12:32:52","modified_gmt":"2013-06-17T19:32:52","slug":"high-fidelity-pure-audio-announced-by-universal-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.realhd-audio.com\/?p=993","title":{"rendered":"High Fidelity Pure Audio Announced By Universal Music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DVD and Beyond is a European online source of &#8220;news, data &#038; analysis for professional involved in DVD, Blu-ray and new delivery technologies&#8221;. It&#8217;s been around a long time and is a great place to read about physical media formats and cutting edge developments&#8230;especially in Europe. I read this morning&#8217;s email version about Universal Music Group&#8217;s decision to begin offering something they call &#8220;High Fidelity Pure Audio&#8221;. Readers of my posts may think this is a d\u00e9j\u00e0 vu moment because I wrote about the efforts by msm studios in Berlin to brand and promote a Blu-ray music-only format called &#8220;Pure Audio&#8221; Blu-ray. The names of these two higher fidelity Blu-ray music formats might be a little confusing don&#8217;t you think?<\/p>\n<p>The Universal effort was just launched in France and there&#8217;s a web site at <a href=\"http:\/\/hifipureaudio.com\/\" title=\"High Fidelity Pure Audio\"><\/a> where interested consumers can purchase around 60 physical BD discs of jazz, international and classical titles. The initiative is a collaborative venture between Universal, Dolby and QOL, which is a major manufacturer of optical discs in France.<\/p>\n<p>The new catalog is taken right from the vaults of Universal Music Group (although it doesn&#8217;t say what the source format is&#8230;digital or analog) and presented in 96 kHz\/24-bit 2.0 channel PCM as well as DTS-HD Master Audio AND Dolby TrueHD to &#8220;ensure compatibility with all consumer-level hi-fi equipment and listener&#8217;s preference&#8221;. Users will get three copies of the small stereo program (5.1 mixes will be available for programs that were originally delivered in surround).<\/p>\n<p>Downloadable versions will be available in MP3 (320 kbps) and FLAC (44.1 kHz\/16-bits) formats by going to the web site and entering a code printed in the packaging.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve posted an opinion piece about this news. Is it the next logical step in music on discs or is it missing the essential ingredients for success?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DVD and Beyond is a European online source of &#8220;news, data &#038; analysis for professional involved in DVD, Blu-ray and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":994,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,12],"tags":[159,158,121],"class_list":["post-993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blu_ray","category-news","tag-blu-ray-music","tag-high-fidelity-blu-ray-audio","tag-pure-audio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realhd-audio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realhd-audio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realhd-audio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realhd-audio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realhd-audio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=993"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.realhd-audio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":995,"href":"https:\/\/www.realhd-audio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993\/revisions\/995"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realhd-audio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realhd-audio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realhd-audio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realhd-audio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}