I saw that the new NIN album comes in a regular disc and a Dualdisc version. Is the Dualdisc the regular album on one side with a 5.1 mix on the other side? For $2 more? It seems like a no-brainer for everyone, even people without a 5.1 soundsystem....Just in case they had the chance to play it in 5.1 somewhere.
― Christian, Tuesday, 3 May 2005 13:12 (twenty years ago)
it's usually a dvd on the other side.
"this won't play in my car/stereo/computer." *beats head against counter*
― strng hlkngtn, Tuesday, 3 May 2005 13:17 (twenty years ago)
I work in a fairly large retail music/book type place, and I've had a few problems with the DualDisc format. Personally, I haven't been able to load the Bowie 'Reality' DualDisc into iTunes, and I've gotten a few POS returns from people who claimed that they just didn't work, but that simply could have been from their own idioticness.
The original paperwork that accompanied the first DualDisc releases had a lot of small print explaining that the discs would not play in all stereos. For some reason I would assume that this would mostly include cheap CD discmans, shitty Wal-Mart stereos, and Car-stereos that wouldn't read the discs. And, perhaps CD-Rom drives, possibly for Anti-Piracy reasons.
The rep from WEA told me that on an official level, the only DualDisc that was pulled for defective reasons, was the last Donnas record. Everything else is technically supposed to be in fine working order. I understand why the industry wants to give listeners more substance for their $$, I just don't find the product that stimulating. And the fact that a number of big name releases are DualDisc ONLY is a real pain in the ass. At least Jennifer Lopez, NIN, and other releases had the option of one or the other. Ben Folds, Springsteen, and Joe Perry are DualDisc only, which, explaining to very old people is similar to performing dentistry on third world infants.
Most people just play the wrong side in their stereos, and say it doesn't work.
― pher (pher), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 17:31 (twenty years ago)
I guess I'm lucky I just have a combined CD/DVD player, then.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 17:32 (twenty years ago)
I bought the last Judas Priest album in DualDisc (it was the cheaper option, as the only other way I saw it was a 2-disc pack where the CD and the DVD were separate). It would play in my stereo, but my iMac couldn't import the tracks into iTunes. So I burned a copy on my old audio-only CD burner, and imported that version.
― pdf (Phil Freeman), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 17:33 (twenty years ago)
I got a Best Buy gift certificate for X-mas so I decided to get a new CD player for my home stereo (for years I've been using a Discman that needs a rubber band to keep the top closed). I didn't want to get a changer or anything, but it turned out they basically don't make regular old CD players anyomore, or at least I couldn't find any. The only thing they had in that line were high-end deals that were like $300. So I wound up buying a Sony DVD player, which of course can play CDs and, I was happy to find, CR-Rs with MP3s. Cost me $70. But then later I find out that to the copy-protected promos some record labels send out my CD player looks like a computer, so it won't play the fucking things!
― Mark (MarkR), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 17:46 (twenty years ago)
It's an anti-piracy measure. Since it's not really a CD or a DVD, you can't bitch when the copy protection prevents it from working in your computer.
― fortunate hazel (f. hazel), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 17:51 (twenty years ago)
Another possibility is that some company doesn't want to pay another company to license SACD or DVD-A formats, so they brought this out.
― fortunate hazel (f. hazel), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 17:59 (twenty years ago)
five months pass...
I just bought the new Destiny's Child hits dualdisc. WON'T PLAY ON MY COMPUTER...fuckers.
― van igloo (van smack), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 20:46 (twenty years ago)