Or, digital encoding on vinyl? Pretty low bitrate, but... They already do this a bit for DJing - the vinyl they are "spinning" is usually just a bunch of position indicators so the software can reproduce the motion from a digital audio file.
Lol.. other than the one side part (turtle anyone?) what you're proposing is a laserdisc. Ie an actual thing. They're not coming back either because they died. Vinyl never died it just declined. Simplicity of playback equipment is a big reason why. Also nothing stops anyone from putting a CD in a 12 inch jewel case or sleeve of some sort.
Re:Sony plans to make vinyl records again
by thatwebdude on Friday June 30, 2017 @12:52PM
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Laser disc never died either; just ask my 8th grade science teacher and his collection of documentaries. Still (!) evidence of use today.
Why start another format? People will either have to re-buy stuff or they won't care. One great thing about vinyl is you can get old records on eBay for less than £5. Start a new format and you lose that. You would also need to re-release a lot of stuff (which isn't going to happen).
Phillips already experimented with an audio laserdisc in the late 1970s.
It requires the audio to be modulated (using FM) and thus this introduces serious barriers to the sound quality.
On the LP, the audio is baseband. It isn't modulated at all.
You can already buy a laser player (http://elpj.com)
Because part of what they are selling is nostalgia, so making it into something 'new' is counterproductive.
One side disc, large format, laser pickup, analog recording.
Bring together the good parts from both LP and CD / DVD.