High definition audio format (Blu-Ray/HD-DVD) and current speakers

[hail]

Hello, I have read recently in a magazine a comparative between some speakers, but there was something that caught my attention. In the review of one model (Tannoy Sensis 1) it was said "Ready for high definition digital formats, the current ones and the forthcoming" I suppose refering to Blu Ray and HD-DVD. So, my question is: won't current speakers work with audio formats of Blue Ray and HD-DVD? If so, what features do speakers have to have to be compatible with those audio formats?
Thank you.

 

[Jedi2016]

The speakers will be fine.. sound is sound. I'm not even sure why they'd mention it.. the only things that will need to be "compatible" with the new hi-fi audio formats is the reciever and/or player that needs to decode the signal.

 

[Rock&Roll Ninja]

Its just a marketing gimmick. Most likely aimed at people like my brother (too much money, no intrest in researching anything) "High def speakers! I better get those for my high-def TV!". Of course he bought a widescreen high-def TV last year, and never even heard of HDTV until I asked him about it a week ago . Honestly, he thought widescreen TV's were just for making DVDs look good.

 

[Pyrrho]

This reminds me of the advertising in the 1980s. New speakers were often labeled "digital ready" (to be suitable for use with the new CDs), as if they were actually receiving a digital signal from the power amps! As stated by others above, sound is sound, and every speaker is as ready for new formats as it is for sound now. Marketing is what drives such claims.

Basically, you need to be careful about any and every claim made by any and every manufacturer or seller. And any and every claim by anyone who might have believed something claimed by the above.

So, when someone tells you something, always double check if you are not in a position to know that they are right. Remember, someone can be honest and still be wrong; one needs only be mistaken to say something false. Curiously, people often imagine that they are being accused of being dishonest if one suggests that they might be mistaken, which does not say much for their intelligence.

 

[hail]

OK, thank you. That reassure me.