Pink Floyd Animals in 5.1 Speculation, Now Pricing & Shipping thread starting Page 248

They should invent and build a Nintendo Classic Mini sort of box that has all of the Pink Floyd catalog in 5.1 hi-res so you can just have it on the go no matter what format of player is around.

 

Why is that? It most certainly has everything to do with what you posted. You posted that "SACD is Guthrie's preferred format and 100% his call". I understand your point from a respective that SACD is James Guthrie's preferred audio format. But it apparently wasn't his call when his 5.1 mixes were released on Blu-ray and DVD in the Immersion sets. That's my point.

 

Yes, and that's all I was saying but you added...

I never wrote that the other formats were his call or otherwise. I only posted about the SACD format that we were discussing.

 

Think rontoon means that the mixes were originally done for SACD and intended for that format, which is 100% Guthrie's call. Later decisions to stick them on blu-ray and dvd were after the fact.

 

I understand that. But your post was in reply to mark winstanley's post. He posted that it might be better on Blu-ray for uniformity than on SACD. I took your response to mean that the release of Animals in 5.1 on SACD was his call. I tend to think that if Gilmour, Waters and Mason wanted the Animals 5.1 mix on Blu-ray that's the format that would be used IMO. Of course it's not and will be on SACD. But I still tend to think it's not James Guthrie's call and his alone to what format a Pink Floyd album will be released on.

 

I'd take that or a reprint of the t-shirt David Gilmour wore during the Animals tour.

 

Yes, this exactly. Thanks.

It is Guthrie's call.

Of course this is the case but I don't think they care squat about the format. That's why they let James/AP have the SACD release while Paul Loasby probably makes the decisions regarding other formats (if they are to be released in other formats).

Yet it is in regards to the SACD. They trust him to make that decision. That's all I was pointing out.

 

I have this shirt:





(photo: rockcollection.co.uk)

 

I was at that show (July 2nd)!

 

Nope. Nobody would accidentally buy a BluRay thinking that they could get better sound out of their regular cd player.

 

100% Premium Cotton T-shirt - Pig Floyd as worn Dave Gilmour of Pink Floyd - 8 tee colours - Free 1st class Delivery


Pink Floyd pink pig t-shirt (they also sell the plush pig)


More to be found via Google!

 

Would re-releasing a CD or even a bluray these days even be considered a "mass marketing" device as opposed to SACD?

I jest, but seriously CD's these days are not flying off the shelves and I'm not sure that millennials consider them "cool".

A hybrid SACD should be good for a lot of audiophiles. Notice I did not say ALL.

 

This "authorized" reprint was done and sold at the Victoria Albert Museum when the Floyd exhibit was there. I think an official faded version was also sold by Lucky Jeans a few years ago. There may be other places it's available at too, those are just the ones I know about.

 

Correct.

I only know this because my young niece was visiting from the UK last year, and my wife and I must have accompanied her on a tour of every clothing emporium in the Bay Area and I came across the pig shirt in one of their stores.

Pink Floyd Pig | Lucky Brand

 

Disagree. Discs cost $30 bucks, you can get a decent universal player for $100. Used is fine too. Those things tend to last a long time. I remember when the Genesis boxes came out people were bitching about SACD when the players cost less than the box. All you need is a universal player with HDMI out.

Now, if you don't have an AVR with HDMI inputs you are SOL, but you can't argue that a movie set up is not a way to get a wide audience. What IS a way to get a wide audience? CDs? Vinyl? Blu-Ray? Most, not all, will play SACD. Hell, I've got an old Pioneer universal player I will trade you for a copy of the Animals SACD. It may even have an analogue out. PM me. Offer expires January 2020.

 

Yowza! Thirty quid, that's like fifty Canuckbucks give or take...I'll just stick with my Oakland '77 shirt:

 

Will the SACD have bonus tracks? What about a stereo remix?

 

If history repeats itself there won't be any bonus tracks or a new stereo mix, but there will be a CD layer on the hybrid.

From what I understand you all won't have to wait too much longer...

 

Wondering how this will be packaged. Similar as the WYWH SACD release?

 

That would be my guess.

 

What happened to the deluxe edition with bonus tracks?

 

Is there any *actual* traction on this being released or is it just talk, rumor, and innuendo that it maybe possibly sorta could be kinda conceivably likely...maybe?

This is one of those releases that makes me want to shout

 

As a surround mix has been done, it would be a little surprising (and hugely disappointing) is a new stereo mix isn't released - especially as most surrounds are done by first building a stereo mix. As for the package, I hope the charge isn't at the level of the AP "Wish You Were Here" hybrid SACD release. The cost to quality ratio for Floyd releases in recentish years really leaves a nasty taste in the mouth and is so hypocritical considering the lyrical material about avarice. But, Floyd don't seem to care about that any more. Hopefully, Animals will be a nice surprise rather than yet another (relative) let down.

 

That was all conjecture. Still could happen I guess...

It's a done deal. Trust me, there's a street date.

This wasn't the case with WYWH so it's far from a given with this release.

 

I believe it was confirmed up thread.