SACD/DVD-A dead

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Originally Posted by THE STUD

until SACD gets some serious scores/soundtracks, count me out, and count me onboard for a new format. LOTR came out on DVD-A, and that's the only one I"ve seen that's a great score. the rest are still on that stupid CD format, and people need to get off of it.

You can't blame the SACD format just because LOTR was issued on DVD-A. Technically the score can also be issued on SACD but it just won't get any higher resolution.

problem is that for you to truly appreciate HD audio, you must have a nice system, the average guy has a tiny little box set with a few satellites and an overrated subwoofer that couldn't fill a room with any quality sound.

Not quite true. A neighbor of mind have always disliked the way his CDs sound when he played it on his Sony HTiB. Then I put in the Depeche Mode SACD and he was blown away.

SACD has few choices in my area of interest. Scores need the HD touch because they are much more susceptible to static or phantom sound, and because SACD has like 5 of them, I can't take them serious or see them as being anything more than a dying format. fortunately my LOTR on DVD-A can play on any kind of dvd player, of course not the advanced resolution, but the dd can.

I've no idea what the first half of this paragraph is about. But hybrid SACDs can be played on any CD player.

any format that slices CD prices I will like. unfortunately people are still quarelling over DVD-A and SACD and CD quality. we need this new format because the old ones still have too much confusion and not enough popularity. Blu-Ray music could allow the storage of multiple albums on one single disc in HD. imagine not having to switch discs anymore for ur favorite songs. WOW.

Read the bolded sentence. Then read the rest of your paragraph. Think before you respond.

basically blu-ray should make a BD-A just like DVD-A but with higher quality and more room for extras. imageine listening to a song and being able to read all about that song, have an image of the actual sheet music, read a bio on the composer/artists, have pics from the movie(for scores) and so forth. SACD is just a glorified CD, we need NEW GENERATION, not just something u throw in the player and it goes, no extras, no images, no anything.
imagine albums in DD True HD. !!!!!!!!!!!

DVD-A are already priced higher than regular CDs. Some of it have lyrics, videos, and bios. Yet you don't see a huge influx of people getting it. Launching a BD-A format is not going to get scores of people into HD audio - not unless the music labels back it 100%, which was why SACD and DVD-A didn't take off.


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