Whenever cable providers convert to digital television completely there will be enough bandwidth to handle all this and more. If I still have a cable connection at that time I'm sure I would enjoy the background music sometimes because that is what it will be in my life, background music.
It doesn't take a rocket scientist to predict the shiny little disks will go the way of everything else but I doubt that it will matter. The niche market that all of us here are in will be catered to in one way or another. And, it may be for the better. If the shiny little disks are only sold to the audiophile community maybe they will be packed with the best two channel digital available instead of layer upon layer that defeats the potential of the medium.
I'm in the Twl camp being vinyl based and knew from 1982 until today that most of the promotion was a scam. That being said, I also believe that if the goal of digital was high quality two channel only, the results would be great and satisfy almost any audiophile, me included. The home theatre movement has hurt the gains that should have occurred by now.
It doesn't take a rocket scientist to predict the shiny little disks will go the way of everything else but I doubt that it will matter. The niche market that all of us here are in will be catered to in one way or another. And, it may be for the better. If the shiny little disks are only sold to the audiophile community maybe they will be packed with the best two channel digital available instead of layer upon layer that defeats the potential of the medium.
I'm in the Twl camp being vinyl based and knew from 1982 until today that most of the promotion was a scam. That being said, I also believe that if the goal of digital was high quality two channel only, the results would be great and satisfy almost any audiophile, me included. The home theatre movement has hurt the gains that should have occurred by now.