T-Bone Burnett’s CODE - John Mellencamp

July 29, 2008 by David Kay



Music producer T-Bone Burnett has released a new so called "proprietary audio technology" dubbed ΧΟΔΕ (CODE). What is CODE? Well, it's a DVD-Video disc that will be included with a standard CD in all of T-Bone's new releases, the first being John Mellencamp's Life, Death, Love and Freedom, that contains no video. Rather, it contains a copy of the album in 24/96 PCM stereo, playable on any DVD player. This differs from Reference Recording's HRx discs, which are WAVE files packed on data discs.

CODE's engineers claim that the format is "virtually indistinguishable from the original master tapes". Another bonus of the format is that it is not rip protected, the PCM audio can be directly imported into iTunes and other music managers. It will be interesting to see if this little experiment goes anywhere. I've long felt that DVD-V should've been the format to replace the CD, but with online stores like MusicGiants and HDTracks offering easily downloadable lossless files, it may be too late for any new physical format.

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Comments (5)
supergimp 2 years and 1 month ago

Classic Records has been releasing 24/96 and 24/192 versions of their licensed titles (Neil Young, The Who, Peter Gabriel, Hendrix, etc as well as dozens of classical and jazz titles) on audio-only DVD-Video since the late 90's - shortly after the launch of DVD-V and long before the first DVD-A release. This is nothing new. They call their releases DAD (24/96) and HDAD (24/96 and 24/192). There is no DRM on their titles either.

http://www.classicrecords.com
Dave Kay 2 years and 1 month ago

Interesting, I hadn't heard of those other DVD-V releases before. Unfortunately that seems to indicate that this little experiment will indeed not go anywhere.
ngsm13 2 years and 1 month ago

Great thing to offer...

Doubt there is booming interest though. It just doesn't seem like the audiophile scope reaches far enough...
Dave Kay 2 years and 1 month ago

For a new physical format to replace the CD, the shift would have to be made as painless as possible for the consumer, but it would have to be total. Consumers will not shift on their own to new formats that offer better sound quality, but no increased convenience. Completely eliminating the CD in favor of hybrid SACDs probably would've worked, but nobody could be bothered to do it. Same goes for this type of CD/DVD package. Now it's just too late.
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