In Reply to: let us say that SONY posted by hifitommy on February 29, 2012 at 16:38:05:
Sony still supports SACD, as you posted, in their video players.
Also, why was it Sony's responsibility to decide whether a release was to be single layer/SACD only or hybrid? That was the choice of the record company putting out the SACD.
Many purist SACD fans prefer the single layer SACDs, so the hybrid arguement can go both ways
Sony was the facilitator and was there to get the ball rolling, the rest was up to the Record Companies to go with it. Sony is still involved in the release of every single SACD commercially sold.
Sony has made relatively inexpensive SACD players early on, many of which sold for much less than it cost Sony to make, such as the SCD-1 (bought mine in 2003, and have over 900 SACDs) and other early machines to help with the adoption of the format.
If the rest of the Record Companies would have jumped on board, then we might not be seeing the downward spiral of CD and of all the online downloads, as that was the true intention of SACD..copyright protection.
The cost of SACDs since inception were a problem with me. I notice you mention that you paid around the same price for SACD as CD..I never seen that at any outlet, including Best Buy...unless on sale or when they were clearing out the SACD section.
In every music store I shopped, SACD's always were in their own section, with the exception of a few Hybrids (Stones, Dylan) that didn't matter because they played on CD only players also.
I don't think multichannel has anything really to do with SACD not catching on, because there is also a stereo layer and the multichannel was more later.
Many purist SACD fans prefer the single layer SACDs, so the hybrid arguement can go both ways
It's all about the music!
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- Sony still supports and controls SACD - rich121 17:53:00 02/29/12 (1)
- early SACD pricing - hifitommy 20:09:48 02/29/12 (0)