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Originally Posted by jdc115
Format war or not with SACD, I don't think it really mattered. For audio, most people do not have the system to really notice the difference or care. Free MP3s seemed good enough for mass adoption and I just don't think DVD-A or SACD would ever have been more then a niche even on their own. IMO...
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It's that same consumer apathy that keeps Blu-rays at risk for being widely adopted by the masses over DVDs. A friend of mine has hundreds of SACDs, totally eclipsing my SACD collection, and sonically his system is awe inspiring. Most of my other friends still don't get that there are formats that are better than CDs. They also don't think their compressed music download files have been compromised sonically at all.
I would love the music industry to step up and work with the BDA to utilize Blu-ray as a standardized HD audio format. As much as I love SACDs, they never widely caught on, at least beyond jazz and classical music. a Blu-ray-A disc could offer multi-channel and stereo concert videos, as well as audio only multi-channel and 2 channel stereo tracks. That could be a heck of a package to compete with $1 downloads.
I'd probably listen to the 2 channel audio tracks mostly.
