I agree, failed to support

Posted by Head_Unit (A) on March 12, 2012 at 20:12:47

In Reply to: let us say that SONY posted by hifitommy on February 29, 2012 at 16:38:05:

The "SACD Project" fellow-I forget his name-once told he was running around trying to convince the pro and recorded and etc divisions of Sony to support SACD. NO push from the corporate top; ZERO company-wide mandate to "must support" and really muscle the format out to the public.

Of course, that would have required a lot of investment and risk:
- Chiefly, make EVERY new Sony release SACD, which practically would have necessitated hybrid, which would have been racing the replication cost curve and quantity production bottleneck, necessitating more production factory investment.
- SACD car players, including digital out solutions (i.e. MOST bus for BMW/Benz/Audi)
- Every DVD model support SACD. If you really want to be ubiquitous, ya gotta really do it.
and on and on as I've posted elsewhere.

They might have gained the world. Or lost their shirts. We'll never know.

Personally, I don't care much any more. I love surround when it's done well but one of my conclusions from the DVDA/SACD debacle was that maybe there just isn't enough creativity out there for massive numbers of compelling surround releases. There were a few cool titles, and other stuff that was like "Yaaaaawn"

That said, let me reverse myself and say I still hope for music on Blu-ray.

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Topic - SACD - Munkie_NL 03:05:27 02/29/12 (30)

The real value of SACD is multi-channel - Feanor 16:57:23 03/01/12 (4)

RE: The real value of SACD is multi-channel - Dave Billinge 01:32:11 03/02/12 (3)

Perhaps one exception that I posted late last night on - audiozorro 10:01:10 03/02/12 (2)

RE: Perhaps one exception that I posted late last night on - Kal Rubinson 09:07:18 03/03/12 (1)

Thanks, I also wish to reserve judgement on this SACD - audiozorro 09:55:43 03/03/12 (0)

RE: SACD - Kal Rubinson 17:52:48 02/29/12 (0)

A different experience - Sordidman 12:58:51 02/29/12 (15)

Then you have never heard properly taken care of vinyl or a properly set-up turntable/system - rich121 17:32:24 02/29/12 (14)

I know, there aren't that many $25,000 TTs out there -t - Sordidman 12:20:37 03/01/12 (8)

Wanna bet? :^) - rich121 12:27:15 03/01/12 (7)

I think he meant in numbers sold. - Mali 14:45:13 03/01/12 (6)

RE: I think he meant in numbers sold. - nairb 04:07:19 03/13/12 (0)

RE: I think he meant in numbers sold. - Disbeliever 22:53:15 03/01/12 (0)

no, takes a 20K TT to get close to one of the top tier - Sordidman 21:40:13 03/01/12 (0)

RE: I think he meant in numbers sold. - rich121 15:44:16 03/01/12 (2)

RE: I think he meant in numbers sold. - Mali 08:23:20 03/02/12 (1)

RE: I think he meant in numbers sold. - rich121 09:06:58 03/02/12 (0)

What, you have 900 SACDs? - Ozzie 19:06:21 02/29/12 (4)

RE: What, you have 900 SACDs? - rich121 22:24:28 02/29/12 (3)

What, 25,000 LPs? - Ozzie 16:59:11 03/01/12 (0)

RE: What, you have 900 SACDs? - Disbeliever 23:16:23 02/29/12 (1)

RE: What, you have 900 SACDs? - rich121 10:08:46 03/01/12 (0)

hmm... - rich121 10:59:13 02/29/12 (0)

late to the party for SACDs - hifitommy 06:21:48 02/29/12 (6)

What he said. - Opus 104 06:37:36 02/29/12 (5)

RE: What he said. - rich121 11:02:02 02/29/12 (4)

let us say that SONY - hifitommy 16:38:05 02/29/12 (3)

I agree, failed to support - Head_Unit 20:12:47 03/12/12 (0)

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)

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