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B&D wrote:

On 9/19/04 10:19 AM, in article , "Cervin"
wrote:

I heard again last week from a technician of a reputed high end audio
supplier that sony would discontinue sacd; this was rumor coming from
Japan inside Sony. Any other feedback from the group, except that it
is the 1000th rumour on this ?

This would not surprise me as Sony is going to be promoting their Blu-ray
HD-DVD technology, as well as some hi-rez + DVD formating (that new flip
disc and so on).

Though death of new formats tends to be overstated especially with Sony -
and DSD *is* a studio format, who knows!

I can bet that the "marketing push" that Sony did over the last couple of
years will be toned down as they try to promote the high Rez video formats -
and perhaps it will allow the SACD to survive as a couple of tracks there?

I have no insider information on this topic but I will say that if there's
anything that Sony has done right is to continue to support the customers who
use their proprietary formats. Look at how long they supported Beta when it had
clearly lost in the marketplace. Same with MiniDisc; it's still being used
while its competitor DCC has been long discarded both having been blasted out
of the water by cd-r.