[Sonnova]

On Tue, 11 Dec 2007 16:22:53 -0800, Arny Krueger wrote
(in article ):

"willbill" wrote in message

Will SACD die?

OK, 1st off i'm *not* trying to start a war!

anyhow, i just got my 1st HD player (a 3rd gen
Toshiba A35), and the HD sound isn't bad
(based so far only the included 300 movie disk)

given that there are probably already many
more HD players out there than there are
SACD players, will that cause hi-end audio
multichannel sound to switch away from SACD?

I think that DVD-A formats may turn up as compatibilty formats for HD
and/or Blu Ray players. It would just be a matter of relatively simple
decoding in signal processing units that are already pretty complicated.

SACD could get pretty dead pretty fast because it requires special laser
pickup assemblies because the initial content protection security is
implemented there.

Not according to a friend of mine who is an engineer for Oppo. Their players
are pretty cheap ($149 for the cheapest) and will support/play SACD, and in
fact will play just about any 12 cm optical disc format. He says that the
Oppo transport is a general purpose chinese OEM.