New Sony BD players unveiled at CES play SACD!

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Originally Posted by frank_t

probably true, but why would sony add SACD playback now?

seems a dying format is a dying format.

i'm glad they did. i have 2 sacd players at home (a PS3 and a Denon player), and knowing there is more recent hardware that supports is great since I have a nice expensive collection.

Because it's dirt cheap AND they know there's still a niche market for them, very, very niche.

For popular music, Blu-ray will be the next media they try. I wouldn't be surprised if the Beatles 24/192 Blu-ray box set comes to fruition, maybe we'll finally get the 5.1 mix of Thriller now complete with videos, etc.

Tonnes of stuff you can do with the Blu-ray format's 50GB and for the .mp3 masses there's plenty of other reasons for them to buy it, special features, interactive content, plus you can do 1080p24 or 1080i60 concurrently with your multi-channel HD audio which no format has been able to do before now.