[Arny Krueger]

"Tim" wrote in message

Now that it looks like Bluray has won the next generation
video format war. I was now wondering about the format
war no one cared about DVD-Audio and SACD. Are both
these formats near death?

You just said that this was the format war that nobody cared about. Hold
that thought and fill in the blanks!

Is there any new content or hardware for these formats?

There is a pipeline of products that have been in development for some time.
Ask this question say, 3 years in the future when the current pipeline
contents run out.

It would appear that the mp3
has been chosen as the next generation audio format.

For what?

It would appear that this is just one more nail in the
coffin for high-end audio as well.

If high end audio were really healthy, its cash flow would have floated the
DVD and SACD boats up into the mainstream.

Right now I use a PC
to play DVDs, Bluray DVDs, CDs, and DVR.

You have a BluRay drive in your PC?

I also have
about 2,500 CDs that I paid a kid to rip using EAC to a
couple of 750GB hard drives. The covers were scanned and
the files were encoded using a lossless format. They
were then burned to double sided dvds and stored in slim
jewel cases. On avg I was able to get about 30 CDs on
one disc so with the slim jewel cases about 60 CDs now
take up the space of 1 CD.

Cool!

However this was just for backup storage. I basically
now have a PC that makes no noise in my living room
hooked up to the TV. Using two hard drives I have
instant access to over 2500 CDs using winamp to manage
the media library of over 100 days of music. The media
library makes it very easy to find things in seconds.
Expensive audio cables? Well since I am using a digital
audio cable and they are all the same the answer would be
no. Basically I have spent money on a nice Amp and
speakers, the rest of the high-end industry will be
replaced by computers.

Good for you! You are probably the future of high end audio, such as it
will be after all the boomers retire.