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Hi Corey: This is not true of music-only BluRay discs. I know this for a fact from the folks at Decca/UMG. They have been putting out music BluRay discs that have both 2-channel 96/24 and multi-channel 96/24. See the accompanying BluRay disc with the recent reissue of the Allman Brothers "Idlewild South", the Collin Davis/LSO recording of Handel's Messiah, etc. These types of BluRay discs have had more uptake in Europe and Japan than here. I think it's somewhat new to include on in a rock deluxe reissue like the Allmans. I think UMG has been the main player in this product, with Sony sticking more with SACD, but I might be wrong about that. There are also plenty of music-centric DVDs out there that are NOT non-lossy high-rez, such as the Beatles "One" deluxe and also the accompanying DVD to "Love," which were just Dolby multi-channel DVD sound, plus the Talking Heads "DuoDisc" reissues that had CD on one side and DVD with lossy-matrixed surround on the other side, like a movie. But, don't forget about releases from Classic and others that were true DVD-Audio and included high-rez 2-channel and either 48/16 or 48/24 multi-channel. It's also worth including the caveat that most of the modern low-priced BluRay/DVD players won't support DVD-Audio and may not support BluRay high-rez audio. I'm not interested in extracting movie soundtrack info in "high def," and agree that most of the stuff on movie BluRays is at best 48/24. What I was asking about is, has anyone had first-hand experience with the method described in the link to extract high-rez WAV from MUSIC BluRay discs, ie those discs that do hold high-rez content? -- Tom Fine ----- Original Message ----- From: "Corey Bailey" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Sunday, January 31, 2016 2:28 AM Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Extracting WAV from BluRay audio discs > Hi Tom, > > The audio standard in the movie industry, from production to finished mix, is 24 Bit, 48kHz, BWF. > It won't get any better that that, even for new releases (born digital). For everything pre > BluRay, the audio has been most likely re-purposed from the NTSC DVD it was originally released on > (16/48 which, was 24 bit truncated to 16 bit). I'm even aware of situations where the original > files for the standard definition DVD were unable to be restored from archival copies and the > producing company resorted to ripping, and then converting, the AC3 file from a commercial release > for re-purposing to BluRay. > > Sorry if I burst your bubble. > > Corey > Corey Bailey Audio Engineering > www.baileyzone.net > > On 1/30/2016 5:11 AM, Tom Fine wrote: >> Has anyone had success with this method of extracting WAV (or FLAC) high-resolution audio from >> BluRay discs? >> http://www.computeraudiophile.com/content/473-ripping-blu-ray-easy-way/ >> >> -- Tom Fine > >