Yup. The change from vinyl to CD was a dramatic leap. A revolution. Now
we're trying to get from CD to the next step, SACD or DVD-A. An
evolution. The change, even technically, is not so dramatic, just mo'
better AD-DA, but on the consumer end you can just barely tell if
anything's changed at all. Same disc and same looking palyer with a
DVD-A or SACD sticker on the front. This is much much much more of a
marketing challenge. Sony/Philips seems to have done their homework. The
DVD-A consortium needs to step up.

By the way, who are the companies that stand steadfastly behind DVD-A?
Maybe that's why Sony/Philips have pushed SACD so hard. It's their baby.
And the fact that they have alot of control over infrastructure, such as
the recodring studios, artists etc. But DVD-A is whose baby?


CD


Charles Tomaras wrote:
"Lawrence Leung" wrote in message
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Tell me why can CD take over the dominance place of LP 20 years ago? Is
it because CD is so much better than LP? No! Everything is marketing my
friends, and if you can't accept it, I'm afraid you will be very
disappointed!


So you are saying that you don't think CD won the battle over LP because of
no flipping, no scratches, reduced "hiss", no wear, wider frequency
response, ability to have left and right panned low end, ability to play in
cars and on portables, and many other improvements and conveniences? You
are saying it was marketing? Once the word got out about how absolutely
superior CD's were in just about every meaningful way to consumers they
preferred it over the incredible limitations of vinyl. That's not marketing,
that's just knowledge that was mostly spread word of mouth and by sound of
stereo. I was the music director of a 100,000 watt NPR jazz station in 1984
and I even went so far as to air blind comparisons between CD and LP on the
same titles for a listener survey I designed to present information to a
radio panel I was a speaker on at that year's Jazz Times Convention in NYC.
The results were overwhelmingly for CD even on FM radio. Better fidelity,
better separation, more lifelike were just a few of the comments from back
then which were culled from over 200 respondents.