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Many cards can handle 192/24. That's not the issue. Currently, no drives can read them. |
Most computer DVD drives can read DVD-Audio discs and Audigy 2 comes with software to play DVD-Audio, I know, I have it and DVD-Audio discs, and yes it's playing the DVD-A stream, not DD5.1, check out Creative's webpage for more info.
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IIRC, SACD and DVD-A players don't have a digital out for this very reason, da? |
Sony XA-9000ES, Pioneer Elite DV-47ai, 59avi, and the new 45ai, Denon DVD-5900, DVD-9000, and some other high end players like dCS have digital out for SACD and DVD-A in the form of Firewire, Denon-Link, and other proprietary interfaces...it's just still encrypted, you can't rip it.
You can't play/capture *native* DSD (SACD) on computers without a very expensive solution (>$40,000, I believe).
Here is the SACD copy protection system:
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1. SACD Mark, which hides certain disc parameters in the lead-in area by scrambling the data. Drives need this information before they can start reading the disc. A non-compliant drive will, therefore, not be able to get data from any SACD disc.
2. PSP-PDM, which is an invisible watermark that is very difficult to write on a recordable disc and can only be mastered with SACD licensed equipment. It involves using Pit Signal Processing (PSP), which modulates the width of pits on the disc. PSP-PDM is used for Playback Control and for content access control as it contains part of the descrambling key.
3. Scrambled content, using the SACD synchronous stream cipher, which is optimised to achieve high performance in hardware. It needs a key that is partly hidden in the PSP-PDM on the disc and partly hidden in the player hardware.
4. Descrambling algorithm is available in hardware only. The license contract does not allow the algorithm to be made available in software, which would make it too vulnerable for reverse engineering by PC-hackers.
There can also be an optional Visible Watermark, which is a ‘hologram-like’ image that can optionally be placed on the signal side of an SACD disc, using pit signal processing, but with the pit width modulation synchronised so that a pattern can be written. As in the case of bank notes, this mark can be used to indicate to the consumer that the disc is an official product.
So, #4 would make it really hard for an average consumer to rip an SACD because you have to have a hardware DSD card for descrambling. I think it will be much easier for DVD-A when the time does come, since it's PCM and the Audigy and other 24/192 cards can obviously play that.
You could always get a nice soundcard, record at 24/96 or whatever from analog and then burn a DVD of it. That's the easiest way now. You'd lose a little quality but it would still be excellent.