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In Reply to: Re: Canadian sales will be poor... posted by Mick Jones on July 31, 2002 at 16:44:26:
Just stating facts.SACD prices are high in Canada.
SACD is failing miserably in Canada.It's a legit concern for the SACD format, regardless if you live in Canada or not.
A format has no chance of winning if only the U.S. adopts it.
Other countries will need to adopt SACD for it to succeed.
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tends to be more conservative in adopting new technology but we also have some of the lowest CD prices in the world. The problem stems from the business practices of companies like Sony Canada and HMV which, while multi-nationals, still price according to the local market. It is pretty clear to me that Sony Canada is willing to see its market buy from the US as far as SACD is concerned cause they get lots of US buyers on other products. SACD is a hard sell as most Canadians don't usually pay much hardware let alone the premium prices for SACD. I am buying a few CD's for a friend today, Bruce Springsteen latest is $13.99 CDN. Naxos DVD-A's are $16.99 Cdn. and other DVD-A are $26, SACD's (sony) are $26 as well. Speciality labels are upwards to $55. There is no way my friend would pay $26 for the Springsteen disc, a $10 premium is way too much. SACD and DVD-A will struggle until they build enough capacity and sell enough volume to drop prices. Then they will be adopted. DVD-A may slide in the back door via DVD as it is growing incredibly fast in Canada. The catch here is that in the time it takes the two hi-rez formats to catch on, there could quite easily be other formats of hi-rez that come to market. Higher capacity discs should help as it may be possible in the future to have a disc that plays CD, MP3, DVD-A and SACD all on the same disc. The unfortunate things is that manufacturers of hardware are all vying to have the winning format cause the licensing revenue stream is very lucrative versus the revenue on selling hardware. Smaller markets are a much better indicator of true adoption rates as they have less audiophiles than a larger market like the US.
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