Is HDCD dead?


I'm looking at players on this site and hardly none of them seem to encode "HDCD".Is this used in some of the newer players yet?In the past the cd's that had the HDCD label on them all sounded better than regular redbook cd's.Why are'nt more players using this technology.Does anyone have a list of players that use HDCD encoding?
spaz

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A/B any of the red book grateful dead cd's(and mo fi) to the HDCD and see what happens.The HDCD's blows them out of the water.Thats if your player has HDCD.I could not beleive the difference in these recordings.I'm 100% sold on HDCD.It's to bad not more people can hear the difference.I'm using an ancient Sonic Frontiers cd-1 with old technology and this player still holds it's own against Some of players made today.
I'm not to sure on other disc with HDCD.But what ever they did on those Grateful Dead Remasters are nothing short of a miracle.Listen to the disc "Reconing",the track China doll is so holographic its scared me.Garcia voice is suspended about 6 feet above my speakers and on the redbook cd his voice is about eye level.Is this in the remastering or is it from hdcd??
By the way,the mushrooms are good ...so very good.Jerry is now 8 feet above my speakers ..WOOOOOOW man so trippy
The only thing i tried to state is hdcd makes a differnce.And more players should have it ..