Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. See below for list of blu-ray audios still in print: Here is a link to the original interview with Olivier Robert-Murphy who was a key player behind the introduction of this format. Watch the video below as SDEtv takes a look back at some of these good, bad and indifferent releases… For the most part, the ‘high fidelity pure audio’ tag has been consigned to the marketing dustbin of history.īut for a while, there was promise and a period of a few years where a reasonable number of classic rock/pop titles came to market.

These days blu-ray audios are largely found within big audio box sets by acts like The Beatles and Pink Floyd, and it’s relatively rare to find them issued as ‘album-only’ releases, although some acts, like Steven Wilson, still support it as a standalone product.

Some bands, such as XTC, really embraced the format, and to a degree put major label offerings to shame by putting a box set worth of content (surround mixes, instrumentals, demos, videos and more) onto a single blu-ray disc, but for the most part enthusiasm seemed to peter out. For a while, waves of albums were released on this format and album reissue campaigns ( Tears For Fears, Grace Jones, Simple Minds etc.) often made a point of include a ‘pure audio’ blu-ray as part of their offering. This format offered high resolution audio (minimum of 96 kHz / 24 bit), supported lossless 5.1 surround sound and had the capacity to contain an enormous amount of audio and video. SDEtv remembers the blu-ray audio format which for marketing purposes was branded ‘High Fidelity Pure Audio’. The format launched in 2013 and now has only occasional support

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