HDCD CD's

Check out http://www.hdcd.com for a list of the available titles on HDCD.

Another excellent format is XRCD which takes no special equipment for playback since it is accomplished via a mastering and optimization process. Their catalog is available at http://www.xrcd.com.

Who needs SACD anyway (as I duck my head to weather the expected storm...)?

Jeff, my understanding is there are less than 200 releases to date on XRCD and XRCD2. The XRCD Web site probably has them all. BTW, my digging around uncovered that JVC relaunched the technology with XRCD 24 in November of 2002. XRCD 24 "directly inputs 24-bit information onto 16-bit PCM masters" and "JVC is confident that XRCD 24™ can be compared to any of the best digital formats nowadays". Sounds promising. Now if someone will just use it...

Tommy, I feel your pain and agree that JVC would be more successful licensing the XRCD technology if the enduser prices were more competitive with standard Redbook issues. But then, the prices for XRCD disks are currently similar to what the SACD releases fetched initially. If the latest version of XRCD is comparable to SACD (per their press release) AND requires no additional hardware might be a world beater. It'll be interesting to see how everything pans out.