The problem with SACD and DVD-A is that the music industry has chosen once again to use the new technology to milk us by getting us to re-buy all our music in the new format at a 50% premium.

The music industry half got away with this with CD (once the players became good enough) but eventually had to lower prices (and stop LP production) for CD to really go mainstream.

Those who care about sound quality realise that they have been had with CD. They will not lightly be had again.

Those who don't care much about sound quality will not pay a 50% premium.

If the music industry had released SACD (or DVD-A) discs at the same price as CDs, one of those formats would now be mainstream and a huge success story as people would be starting to replace their CDs.

All the while the music industry persists in trying to milk us, these new formats are effectively dead.

Whither SACD?

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