By lowering either the sampling rate or the accuracy dvds can hold more music.
Why is vinyl more expensive than cd.
Digital music as source for vinyl.
Why is new mainstream vinyl now so expensive is it.
A few years back new vinyl cost 25 to 30.
And actually the cost is now cheaper than it was in the 70 s 80 s if you think about inflation.
That s about 10 20 more than what it would have cost me back in 1981 and exactly the same it would have cost me 20 years ago.
The table below lists the sampling rate and the accuracy for cd recordings and the maximum sampling rate and accuracy for dvd recordings.
But the majority of today s new and re issued vinyl albums around 80 or more several experts estimate start from digital files even lower quality cds.
Production capacity is up and more stock is being produced in ever greater numbers so theoretically the cost of vinyl should be going down or at least holding steady not going up.
Cds can also hold 74 minutes of music.
Old lps were cut from analog tapes that s why they sound so high quality.
Dvds can hold 74 minutes of music at their highest quality level.
When cd s were first released a vinyl cost approx 6 9 cd s first entered the market costing 15 25 some double cd s up to 35 like anything consumer demand quickly brought the price down.