[Arny Krueger]

"Kirk McElhearn" kirkmc (at) mac (dot) com wrote in
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On 2011-02-25 13:52:06 +0100, "Arny Krueger"
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Are people stupid enough to fall for it as "better"?

They haven't been so far.

Right - notice the smoldering ashes of DVD-A and SACD.

That's not true. In classical music, SACDs are selling
fairly well.

The last sales fibures I can find date back to 2008 when SACD & DVD were
still on local shelves. They're not on local shelves here any more.

In 2008 DVD+SACD sales were $6.4 million which is 426,000 units presuming
$15 each.

Physical media sales which are overwhelmingly CDs were $8 Billion in 2008.
No matter how you look at it, that's over 1,000 times more units putting
SACD+DVD at less than 0.1% of sales of physical media.

A 0.1% or less market share isn't even a good sized niche. 1% would be a
niche.

Not as much as the manufacturers and patent holders would like, but
they're still holding on.

In 2008 SACD+DVD sales were less than 25% of LP sales. LP's are holding on,
but just barely. 25% of just barely is not "even a good sized niche". That
was 3 years ago and things have only gotten worse for the SACD and DVD-A.
Lots worse.