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New DVD/CD Player From Classé;a Freebie from NHT

Wes Phillips Jul 11, 2005 First Published: Jul 11, 2005 0 comments

Classé's new player: Classé'shttp://www.classeaudio.com">Classé's; new Delta line of components now includes a DVD player. The $6500 CDP-300 plays DVD-V, DVD-A, standard CD, DualDisc, Video-CD, S-VCD, and JPEG picture discs, in addition to those encoded with MP3, WMA, and AAC audio formats.

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Breaking the Code

Wes Phillips Jul 11, 2005 First Published: Jul 11, 2005 0 comments

On July 4, a Brazilian website apparently posted some tools that allowed users of InterVideo's">http://www.intervideo.com/jsp/Home.jsp">InterVideo's WinDVD to pull copy-protected data off DVD-Audio discs and store it on the user's hard drive rather than simply routing it to a sound card. According to Afterdawnhttp://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/6597.cfm">Afterdawn;, the tools didn't "do the decryption themselves, [but] instead patched WinDVD to output the decrypted stream to disk instead of the sound card."

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Peer to Peer's Promise

Jon Iverson Jul 04, 2005 First Published: Jul 04, 2005 0 comments

The music industry has been telling us for years that peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing is a bad thing. But a New York company has decided the record labels had it wrong and that it merely needed to harness P2P's power.

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Grokster Decision Leaves Matters Murky

Wes Phillips Jul 04, 2005 First Published: Jul 04, 2005 0 comments

On June 27, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously in favor of Metro-Goldwin-Mayer (MGM), agreeing that peer-to-peer file-sharing services such as StreamCast Networks and Grokster could be held responsible (read: be sued) if they encouraged their users to infringe copyrights. This will return the "MGM vs Grokster" case to a lower court, where it will be determined whether or not the P2P companies encouraged their users to violate copyright laws.

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IAG Acquires Mission

Jon Iverson Jun 28, 2005 First Published: Jun 29, 2005 0 comments

In a brief statement, The">http://www.internationalaudiogroup.com/">The International Audio Group (IAG) announced on June 28 that it has purchased the Missionhttp://www.mission.co.uk/">Mission; business from the Administrators of Symphonix. In a separate transaction, IAG reports that it has also purchased the Mission brandname from NXT.

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The Morpheus Audio Future

Jon Iverson Jun 27, 2005 First Published: Jun 27, 2005 0 comments

The music industry and the file-sharing community have been waiting nervously for the impending Supreme Court decision in MGM">http://www.stereophile.com/news/041105supremes/index.html">MGM vs Grokster, which is expected any day. At stake is not only peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing, but the development of future forms of music distribution.

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Industry Bits & Bobs

Wes Phillips Jun 27, 2005 First Published: Jun 27, 2005 0 comments

Good Morning America: The war for listeners between XM Radio and Sirius Satellite Radio has seen MLB go to one broadcaster (XM) and Howard Stern to the other. On June 21, Sirius announced an agreement that will put the BBC's popular Radio 1 on a time-shifted broadcast schedule. The time-shift will enable American listeners to hear Radio 1's broadcast day "as it was intended—with Chris Moyles' Breakfast Show in the morning, Scott Mills' show in the afternoon, and kicking off the weekend with Pete Tong's Friday night Essential Selection," according to a press release.

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Distribution Changes

Wes Phillips Jun 27, 2005 First Published: Jun 27, 2005 0 comments

Note: this article has been updated at the bottom on July 5, 2005 with a statement from Nagra CEO Gérard Beuchat.

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Telarc’s Higdon SACD Wins Major Award

Jason Victor Serinus Jun 20, 2005 First Published: Jun 20, 2005 0 comments

Telarc's stunning hybrid multichannel SACD of Jennifer Higdon's City Scape and Concerto for Orchestra has received the 2005 OutMusic Award for Outstanding New Instrumental Recording. The disc has also received the 2005 Grammy for Best Engineered Classical Recording (well-deserved by Jack Renner) and 2005 Grammy nomination for Best Orchestral Performance (equally well-deserved by Higdon champion Robert Spano and the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra).

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DRM Confusion Delays Digital Future

Jon Iverson Jun 20, 2005 First Published: Jun 20, 2005 0 comments

Forget SACD vs DVD-Audio or even DualDisc. DRM, or digital rights management, has become the biggest audio format issue this year, and will likely continue to be for the next several years. At stake is the future of all consumer interactions with, and uses of, copyrighted digital media.