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In Reply to: RE: An eye for the obvious! posted by Pandro on January 01, 2008 at 20:00:26
<< It's easy and cheap and good -- and maybe the timing is better than ever. Am I missing something? >>
Still the same problems as before. Specifically, there are no software companies releasing any titles in this format any longer. Chesky gave up. Classic was releasing some titles that had DVD-A on one side of the disc and DVD-V on the other side of the disc, but I'm not sure if they're still doing so.
The biggest problem is hardware. Sure, everybody owns a DVD-V player. But very few people own one that actually *sounds* good. The players that most people own are from the Japanese majors, and have switching power supplies, cheap op-amps, electrolytic coupling caps, high levels of feedback, and low-quality parts.
To make a good sounding DVD-V player requires a retail price somewhere between $5,000 and $10,000. And nobody wants to buy something so expensive when there are so few software releases to choose from. Plus nobody wants to buy an expensive video player when two new video formats have come out (Blu-Ray and HD-DVD).
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