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Is SACD dead?
I keep hearing less and less in the press about SACD. Also, it seems that
less, not more, stores are selling SACD's. Am I correct in my assumption that the format will become the HD-CD of the 21st century (i.e. only popular with audio geeks and dying a slow death)? |
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"Henk Boonsma" wrote in message news:1097642261.22c1nqJOu0RX0/Ms4i5UJA@teranews... I keep hearing less and less in the press about SACD. Also, it seems that less, not more, stores are selling SACD's. Am I correct in my assumption that the format will become the HD-CD of the 21st century (i.e. only popular with audio geeks and dying a slow death)? It has already greatly surpassed HDCD. There are now approximately 2800 SACDs released, and many more on the way despite that fact that Sony is currently in hiatus until their music group merges with BMG and gets its act together. Meanwhile more and more releases are coming out from other labels including Deutsch Gramophone, Verve, Fantasy, Telarc, Channel Classics, BIS, RCA, Mercury and on and on. The major chain stores have scaled back the space devoted to SACD and DVD-A, primarily because the no-nothing, current-pop-oriented managers don't have enough knowledge to handle Jazz or Classical or even classic Rock, which account for a considerable chunk of SACD (look at the Jazz and Classical CD sections in most of those stores and you'll see it is not restricted only to SACD). They sell out quickly the popular titles and don't reorder, then complain that what remains doesn't move. Morons! More and more, SACD is being sold directly over the internet from major suppliers such as Music Direct, Amazon.Com, and many other outlets. They can stock in-depth despite the current specialty nature of the format, and there is no reason to believe this can't go on and grow. This is the future of all specialty retailing, I am convinced. Meanwhile, more and better SACD machines and more importantly, Universals, are being brought out at both high and low price points. At this point virtually every mainstream and high end manufacturer has one. You don't even have to worry about a format war any more. |
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Harry Lavo wrote:
"Henk Boonsma" wrote in message news:1097642261.22c1nqJOu0RX0/Ms4i5UJA@teranews... I keep hearing less and less in the press about SACD. Also, it seems that less, not more, stores are selling SACD's. Am I correct in my assumption that the format will become the HD-CD of the 21st century (i.e. only popular with audio geeks and dying a slow death)? It has already greatly surpassed HDCD. There are now approximately 2800 SACDs released, And how many HDCD releases are out there? Microsoft says more than 5,000, with sales of *over 300 million*. And that's from a website dated 2002. http://www.hdcd.com/about/index.html -- -S Your a boring little troll. How does it feel? Go blow your bad breath elsewhere. |
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