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Originally Posted by solarrdadd
it's not a wonder that we haven't given up on SACD & DVD-a yet since Blu-Audio isn't really moving at all (or let me say very, very little) and no new modern R&B, PoP or Rock are not being released on any of the listed media. it seems to me that it's the industry that isn't interested in keeping up with the audio technology available to us.
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You said it, friend. DVD video technology (i.e. standard DVDs) have been around for a good decade now. Even if studios started releasing on DVD-V because many people don't have DVD Audio or SACD players you could fit an album onto a disc in 96/24 stereo. DVD-A/SACD allows for 192/24 multichannel audio, and BD-A allows for that plus 1080p video!
It is all a question of laziness. The music market is now just a low-resolution, compressed digital downloading wasteland of singles and 256k "High Resolution" downloads from the iTunes store.
I am very thankful that most of my music tastes are of the vintage variety, but there are still artists releasing music now that I would pay a lot of money to listen to through a high-quality music release format.
Heck, I was willing to pay $35 for an imported Journey: Eclipse LP until I figured out it was a copy of the CD master. Compare that to the $10 I spent on the CD, or the piddly amount someone would spend to get 2 or 3 of their better songs via download on iTunes.