And here's Neil Young, switching to DVD instead of CD for his next project.
http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003702875

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Clark Johnsen wrote:
> "CD-quality and better downloads." Hmmm...
> 
> Does the irony in this observation escape us?
> 
> CD was touted (granted, originally by its promoters, but then by every
> lapdog newsstand paper and magazine, which is to say, all of them) as
> "perfect". Now, we have "better"?
> 
> Shouldn't this revoltin' development give one pause?
> 
> Question: Who serves as arbiter of sound?
> 
> Who here, or anywhere, may say with assurance, "this", not "that"?
> 
> It's a problem that's been lingering for as long as there's been "fidelity"
> (1925), or "high fidelity" (1933), or... or...
> 
> Ladies and Gentlemen --
> 
> Where are the Sound Standards located, by which one may evaluate new
> contenders?
> 
> Where may one go to hear? To listen? To the best of the past and the best of
> the present, reproduced at the pinnacle of current state of the art?
> 
> Nowhere!
> 
> That situation has bothered me for over twenty-five years, and from time to
> time I shall sound forth on this topic on this list. But let it be noted,
> that back in 1986 at the ARSC convention in San Francisco I did address the
> topic, along with a panel of experts from my side of the river, albeit to
> little lasting effect.
> 
> Still the judgement calls are made -- but who's on the bench? Or in the box?
> 
> clark
> 
>