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In Reply to: RE: SACD posted by skytag on May 19, 2009 at 21:04:40
SACD would have been nice, I agree. But it's not just the technical stuff that stops us it's the legal issues of achieving what we want.
To play SACD it takes an entirely different laser mechanism and that mechanism is only available on a standard transport module as I explained. If this is what you want, there are many fine ones out there like the Oppo. The ROM version is not available to play SACD because of licensing issues through Sony. Sony will not allow us to legally send the raw DSD data through anything but HDMI to maintain their DRM business. So I would be forced to use a standard mechanism with all the DRM restrictions required.
This limitation defeats the entire purpose of the PerfectWave series. The PerfectWave devices wouldn't be what they are if we had to use an off-the-shelf mechanism that plays all this and you'd lose all the advantages we offer for every other format. I am not willing to throw out red book and Hi Rez performance values to support SACD. It just doesn't make sense - especially since I can't support SACD the way it needs to be supported.
What you really want is the PerfectWave to do what it does AND play SACD. I agree with you, but this is not legally possible right now. We struggled with this decision and wondered if we should go ahead and build it - and hope we're small enough that Sony won't notice or care now that they've abandoned the format. In the end we figured it wasn't worth the risk.
I have no desire to build a compromised player and I have no desire to take on Sony. They could crush us like an ant.
This has nothing to do with not supporting SACD.
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Ah, so as I initially speculated, it does come down to a licensing issue. Thanks for the explanation.
Guess it would have been simpler to just say that but then it begs the question about how others are providing it. I just wanted to make it clear that we could have taken the off-the-shelf course and played SACD but we didn't and here's why.
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