@Martyn :

better way to tell this:

http://letmegooglethatforyou.com/?q=FLAC+wiki&l=1

@Moose Patrol
96kHz 24 bit losslessly compressed (does FLAC even do 24 bit?) audio would be nice,

Up to 32 bit per sample, up to over 1Ghz, up to 8 channels - so yes!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flac#Technical_details

This is crazy!

Can they save it and watch it again another time, or is this a 1 time only viewing?

Sounds very expensive to me, but then I'm not into this music. I can't see popular music artist's charging this amount.

It's a good idea, maybe they should start doing this for the theatre, cinema etc.

Would be cool if I could watch the latest movies in the cinema at my home for about 75% of the ticket price. Then I wouldn't have to pay £3 for popcorn, £3 for a drink and £3 for a bag of sweets.

96kHz 24 bit losslessly compressed (does FLAC even do 24 bit?) audio would be nice, if you could download it in a DRM-free form. It would be a decent differentiator, and would let people bounce it down to iPod-friendly formats at a bitrate that suits the quality of their headphones etc. Playing it out at full bore with one of my better outboard DAC boxes hooked up to a nice quiet machine would sound lovely.. Mmmm... orchestra. Having acess to some very decent professional monitors and listening rooms would make me keener than most I guess, but I bet it's still of interest to people who aren't massive properllerheads like me.

It'd certainly make me think about buying the recordings at a sensible fee. Any less unencumbered, and I'm not interested. Any lower quality, and I'm expecting peanuts prices, as I may as well buy an existing recording on CD (16 bit, 44.1kHz uncompressed, no encumbrances) for that sort of money.

When I think "digital streaming", it brings to mind twingy apple sounding music with the higher and lower frequencies chopped off. What format will they be using and what bitrate?