Bluray HTPC audiophile thread

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whitelabrat

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In the meantime there are sources for high resolution DRM free music from folks like 2L (mabey?) , Linn Records , Music Giants , High Def Tape Transfers , Pristine Classical , etc.

It's mostly Classical. What really stinks is that Sony owns Columbia Records which in turn gives them control over a lot of my favorite Jazz music. Sony is evil. I'm not saying I don't own a ton of their stuff though. They've really got a monopoly in some regards.

Off my soapbox.

I suppose a possible solution would be to DIY a decoder of some sort. Something that could recieve the HDMI signial from a source, decrypt the data, separate the audio and then spit out the audio through multiple appropriate outputs. Way over my head though. If I could engineer this sort of stuff...



Take a look at this.
 
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phofman said:
OK, but still the specific BluRay part of the whole picture makes it very complicated. If you drop that requirement, all the rest is already available and used.
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"Already available and used", I presume, for SACD and DVDA; everything else is either 2-channel or compressed. Both these formats have not taken on in the way that Bluray is/will, to provide a wide range of music to a wide range of consumers.
 
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deandob

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Last weekend I ripped my copy of The Police - Certifiable Blu-Ray to disk using AnyDVD from slysoft, which removed the Blu-Ray DRM and then extracted the 24 bit 96Khz audio to PCM using a utility called eac3to. Easy to do, and now I have a hi-res copy of the concert in my music collection.
 
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