On 27/11/2010 07:38, Randy Yates wrote:
(Scott Dorsey) writes:
Why do you think DVD-A and DSD failed?
Umm, because they were snake oil?
DVD-A is/was hardly snake oil,any more than SACD, which (unlike DVD-A)
employs DSD, unless you consider multi-channel surround as snake oil.
The fact that the great public at large seems not to consider surround
important at all except for the (mostly) relatively primitive examples
of it in films, does nothing to invalidate consumer audio delivery
formats supporting multi-channel audio (albeit horizontal-only). Of
course, there is little point in buying recordings in either format if
you are only going to play them in stereo. In which case, DSD is much
the same distillation of snake oil as Dolby 5.1.
Richard Dobson