Will CD's of future be able to do 48khz

[surferdeac]

Was wondering if with advancements in technology that they will be able to produce a Cd that will sample at 48khz instead of 44.1. the reason i ask is because i always have most of my sessions at 48khz at 24 bit. I am running mbox 2 with pro tools le 7.0 soon to upgrade to 7.4 once i get my extra Ecc RAm. I was really wondering the point of it all if you have to mix down to 44.1 khz for a cd. I would think you would be setting yourself up for maybe a little dissapointment from an audio standpoint. I haven't made a Cd yet but I have about 25 sessions that i think are ready to be put on CD (I am a little OCD and am always revisiting them trying to make them better . Should I start tracking at 44.1 from now on or is there any advantage of 48khz 24 bit if you are going to put them on Cd afterall?? Will the technology come someday where we can have a CD sample at 48khz?????????????????????

[Slim Shady]

As far as the CD format, no, that will never change. Obviously there are already other formats blu-ray and SACD that support much higher sample rates, but CDs will always be limited to 44.1k. If your final output goal is a CD it's generally considered better to just track at 44.1k/24bit instead of 48k.

[sunburst79]

No, not if they are going to be called CD's

[surferdeac]

Originally Posted by Slim Shady

As far as the CD format, no, that will never change. Obviously there are already other formats blu-ray and SACD that support much higher sample rates, but CDs will always be limited to 44.1k. If your final output goal is a CD it's generally considered better to just track at 44.1k/24bit instead of 48k.

so there really isn't any point to track higher than 44.1 khz for audio applications if your final goal is to put them on a CD? anotherwords you won't be able to get 48khz audio quality out of your pro tools if its going on to a CD or a MP3 or whatever -- an audio streaming file????

[O.G. Killa]

CDs are a dead medium. Within a few years CDs will have gone the way of Cassette and 8-track tapes.

With internet connection speeds getting faster and faster (ATT UVerse, Verizon FIOS and Google's new 1GB/sec service) you will be able to download 44.1KHz/16bit WAV files (uncompressed) for an entire CD in a matter of minutes. No need for CDs at that point.

Most companies are looking at phasing out CD manufacturing within the next 1 to 3 years.

[surferdeac]

Can you burn just Audio Info onto a DVD and have it play in a CD player????
Will pro tools allow you to burn Audio files onto a DVD to just play back Audio?
Do they make a CD player that can read a DVD Disk and play its audio file??

[nedorama]

"CDs of the future" is an oxymoron. I think they'll be dead in 4 years or less. Plus 44.1 vs. 48 at 16 bits isn't that much better/worse compared to 16/44.1 to 24/96.

They already tried better with the SACD - Super Audio CD and it failed. You'd have to convince everyone to buy new gear. With lossy formats like AAC and MP3, people have voted - most consumers don't want higher quality, they want higher portability. Car audio makers are now making mechanism-free (ie noo CD drive) car stereos - plug in a USB stick or dock your iPod and you're good to go.

if you want high fidelity audio in a physical format, Blu-Ray is where it's at with uncompressed audio.

[O.G. Killa]

Originally Posted by nedorama

if you want high fidelity audio in a physical format, Blu-Ray is where it's at with uncompressed audio.

Or iPod. most people don't realize this but your ipod can play 24bit audio, and I think the latest versions can play WAV files up to ehirt 48KHz or 96KHz. Apple, again, is planning for the future...