Rui Pedro Mendes Salgueiro wrote:
wrote:
I asked sony why the did not release their movie's soundtrack in SACD
(but released in CD only). Sony did not answer the question but said
they would "will escalate this case to our marketing department"
whatever it means.

One of the opinions columns in Hi-Fi World, February 2005 issue is
about SACD. The writer says that he has been told that Sony (the
record label) would like to forget about SACD, but they can't
because Sony (the hardware manufacturer) is still pushing it. But
it seems that Sony stopped subsiding other labels to make SACD
releases.

One data point in support: mastering guru Steve Hoffman worked on some
SACDs for Audio Fidelity in the last year or two, and that was
subsitided by Sony. Then apparently Sony
withdrew their funding, and now Hoffman is touting....HDCD instead
of SACD.


One thing that shows the little activity in SACD is that the top of
SACD sales (at least at amazon) changes quite slowly. For instance,
for most of the past 6 months (at least) Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the
Moon - 30th Anniversary Edition [SACD] has been number 1 (sometimes 2):

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/...wse/-/1071476/

Of course DVD-Audio is not doing (much ?, any ?) better. It seems
that the new dualdiscs (DVD-Audio+CD) have been more or less a
failure (patent problems in Europe, compatibility problems and the
CD side(?) is not standard redbook).

I expect both SACD and DVD-A to go tits-up in the next year or two,
with maybe some boutique labels carrying on, a la vinyl.

* me and a friend bought, respectively, a Pioneer DVD-575A-K and
a Yamaha DVD-S 550 at the same time. Price difference: 20 euros.

And with an artist like Bjork launching her latest record in CD,
DVD-Audio and SACD at similar prices, it seemed that the formats
could finally take off.

But interestingly, AFAICT 'Medulla' hasn;t been released in the USA in
hirez/surround formats. I had to get my DVD-A version from Europe.

(and my god, if any track ever made surround worth having, it's
"Where Is the Line?")



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