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Agreed, someone will probably want to buy the IP and the royalty stream even if they don’t actually invest in the current company.

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I tend to agree. I distinctly recall purchasing a beta hifi machine a few weeks before the Metropolitan Opera centennial gala broadcast on October 22, 1983, simply in order to record that event. At that precise moment in time VHS HiFi had yet a few months to arrive. I was annoyed at this because I had been using VHS for some years and had a small library of pre-recorded and self-recorded tapes, so I didn’t want to make the switch.

I don’t recall whether Beta or VHS was the first to have low-fi stereo capability, but I suspect that the people who would have cared about stereo were actually more enthused about the very real HiFi capabilities of both formats.

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Sad news about MQA

Article from Stereonet that MQA’s furture uncertain…possible receivership

Here is the link to the article

Best wishes

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Filed under don’t care. Have zero stake or interest in MQA for a multitude of reasons.
Ciao MQA.

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Sorry Vince…I just saw that after posting the thread…perhaps Elk
could either delete or merge this thread with that one

Best wishes

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There’s so many posts on the forum, it’s hard to keep track.

Enjoy!

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All set. No problem At all!

This forum keeps getting busier and busier. :slight_smile:

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Wow I had no idea. The Betamax my parents had when I was a kid was all mono, I guess I just assumed it was all like that.

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Nine years… I gave it five.

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Looks like post-MQA plans are underway at TIDAL:

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https://www.reddit.com/r/TIdaL/comments/12hr68f/comment/jfuo1ng/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

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Yeah basically do what other are doing now.

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Possibly Tidal has a sans MQA solution, FLAC if one is to trust posts on Reddit:

Tidal comments on a post MQA Universe?

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I wonder who will be first to stream DSD64.

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There was a service in Japan for a number of years called PrimeSeat with DSD64 & DSD128 streaming service, but ceased as of January 2023.

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The good ol’ days!

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If they don’t have Tidal as a customer / cheerleader that presumably lowers the chances of someone buying it outright?

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It will be interesting to see how this plays out, and if the market will support a different pricing scheme. Quoting from the article:

Moreover, both Apple and Amazon offer their full hi-res catalog within their standard pricing tiers, while Tidal would make its own hi-res lossless offering a paid upgrade at almost twice the cost of those competing services.

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