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William Sommerwerck wrote:
That assumes the intended audience doesn't own a Blu-ray player.


Sure, but they'll play DVD-A discs, most of them.

DVD-A died, probably because few classical labels supported it, and
(more-likely) the high cost of DVD-A recordings. I remember seeing
Nickrenz-Aubort quad recordings that cost less than $3 on QS LPs, selling
for $25 on DVD-A. And there was only one album on the disk!


DVD-A died because it took so long for the standard to come out. By the
time the standard actually got released, players were already in homes and
people were already buying compressed formats. They had real trouble getting
labels interested in it.

Still, there's no reason not to make the discs yourself, even if they are
not a very popular distribution medium.
--scott

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