Hi there,

I'm not sure if an open forum is perhaps the right place to ask this question, but I'm sure that there are many people with Naim AV equipment that would be interested in the answer to the below.

* With the developments of HD-DVD, Blu-Ray, Dolby TrueHD/Digital Plus, DTS-HD, have Naim copies of HD-DVD/Blu-Ray players in house and what would Naim's opinion and stance be on these next generation formats ?

Thanks,
Roy.

HI Roy yes it would be nice to know what Naims opinion is and what they are upto .regards munch

I'm sure, they have an eye open...
But take a look at the The Death of HD DVD ??? thread too.

A relative small manufacturer like naim will never be an early adopter. The price they had to pay for choosing the wrong system will be by far too high. They are after quality, not the latest gadgets...
Guess why they have never built a CD player with SA-CD or HD-DVD capability? (Exept the DVD5 of course)

The players you can buy now don't have all the promised possible features, like new audio formats, ethernet interface, ect. and there is no AV equipment to decode them yet. Even the ones they have sometimes don't work as they should.
The software leaves to be desired by not using the new compressions but still MPEG2 (because the encoders for the new formats are much too slow up to now), only 1 instead of 2 layers - not enough space for additional features, ect.
To me this looks more like tinkered in a hurry and not like a professional introduction of a coming platform.

It's very interesting, but still a green banana. I don't want to buy that in this condition now.
You'll always get the best stuff at the end of an old platform, never at the beginning of a new one! It's a question of experience.

happy watching
Adrian

Adrian,

Yes indeed. I have had a good look over that thread.

I have a good deal of experience on this. In fact I am currently sitting in a training course on the technical aspects of setting up 3 x 65inch plasmas, all outputting 1080p with AAC low latency audio codecs, and the networking requirements of doing this globally.

I was just interested if Naim had had access to any of the new players and formats and their current thoughts on them.

Cheers,
Roy.

Roy,

Now, that sounds like an intersting job to me! Home electronics is my hobby, IT is my job. That's where they meet. On a LAN this should be no problem, but globally on a WAN? This bandwith could get a little expensive...

I always like to hear official statements from Salisbury. It's good to know in which direction they are aiming.

Greetings
Adrian

Adrian,

It's not too bad. A 3 screen system takes on average 12Mb, peaking to about 14Mb.

Roy.

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I am currently sitting in a training course on the technical aspects of setting up 3 x 65inch plasmas, all outputting 1080p with AAC low latency audio codecs, and the networking requirements of doing this globally.

Methinks that is the future–in fact, without the audio compression. Spinning optical discs become far less viable beyond a certain bit-rate, and there are many manufacturers hedging their bets against either existing hi-def optical disc format....