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SACD & DVDA done?

It appears as though Blue Ray has all but put the nail in HDDVD's coffin. Will that end DVDA? Perhaps I'm missing something, but it appears as though even Sony is not including SACD on their Blue Ray players. Does that mean the end of SACD is soon to follow. I was sort of waiting to see which of these formats would win, even considered a Denon that could do both and HDCD. It now appears as though I should hold out for a Blue Ray player. Will Sony abandon SACD and hoist another hi rez audio format that is incompatible with older players on us. If Sony planned to continue to support SACD, you'd think they'd offer it on their Blue Ray players too, no?
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dcstep
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DVD-A is a DVD format, not a HDDVD format, so why would there be any relationship to HD?

DVD-A should be able to survive if there's enough demand. Thank goodness we don't need Sony. DVD-A really delivers rez. I think the whole question is demand. SACD is probably dead because of the recording resrictions. I say good riddance to SACD, screwed up by Sony's manipulative management of the process.

Dave
dcstep
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One big problem with SACD is the producer's need to put out crap like three-channel hybrid or quasi-surround. Some of those do indeed decode well as 2-channel, but many end up being CD-level or worse. They're catering to the AV crowd.

DVD-A does that to a degree also, but a lesser degree. The beauty of DVD-A is that it's available to home-recordists and others that want to put out low volume, high quality music. Sony ruined SACD by trying to overcontrol the format.

Dave
dcstep
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01-24-08: Rwwear said:
"It's been my experience that some surround SACDs sound better than their stereo layer.
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DC, it sounds like you are just a Sony hater. Many people disliked Sony from the beginning because they were considered an outsider upstart by the other Japanese companies. Sony has always done things a little differently than the other large Japanese industries and they upset tradition. But I myself am often bewildered by some of Sony's decisions."

Good Lord, I'm not a Sony hater. I just resent when they try to "tie-up" a format by restricting its accessibility and usefulness. Apple is another that tries to control us and ruins otherwise good products. I'm more in your camp of being bewildered by their stupidity.

Anybody want a Beta video tape machine???? I've got one somewhere....

History repeats itself, again and again and again...

Dave
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