Notice how many SACD collections for sale?

So, here we are again..on yet another thread of SACD dying. Lets start a thread on how "audiophile" is dying. How people rant about formats rather than music - which is the jist of this hobby.
I don't know if SACD is dying or Blu-Ray is dying or Black-ray is in birth, etc. I like this format and will continue to support it at the forums I visit. On some recordings the SACD scares me with the realistic sounds it throws.

BTW, all the pessemists, what SACD player do you have? I am sure you guys have a universal player which is a jack-of-all and master-of-none. So you don't know how a SACD actually sounds.

Classical1, check this thread and you will be glad:

http://forum.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/fr.pl?gmusi&1119226415&openmine&zzMilpai&4&5#Milpai

Tbg, did you buy the RC machine or do you get it done for extra $$. I do understand that the RC process does take some extra effort.

After all the posts, I am wondering, what the SACD pessemists are doing in this Hi-Rez forum? What did they find it so interesting to come to this forum? If it was me, I would never look back and go to a "promising format" forum :-) Ironic!!!

In reply to the orignal thread - yeah Seasoned...throwing towel on hi-rez.. went to Frys at Sunnyvale yesterday, and they have a whole NEW section dedicated to just SACD. Never saw that one before. Met a couple of people (probably between 20-30 age group) searching for SACDs. They expressed surprise on this move. I told them about this thread. Nice, keep 'em coming :-)

Yes Jayctoy. And I think in 2009 we will have a forum on Audiogon with the following topics:

Notice how many Blu-Ray collections for sale?
Another sign Blu-Ray is dying

OR

Notice how many HD-DVD collections for sale?
Another sign HD-DVD is dying

Wow..it would be so nice, if we could predict the future.

Robm321, I think that the audiophile community is pretty small. Assuming that there was another format for the past 40 years and if LP were to be released today, it would also not have been accepted by today's consumers.
The only failures are the big corporates who fell flat on their face to grab audience's attention without listining to their voice. If a technology is good and people start to like it, it will latch on, only it might take some time.
I feel that the Blu-Ray and HD-DVD are targeted at video more than audio. But if they are targeting the audio sector, then you are absolutely right - your logic applies :-))