"Steven Sullivan" wrote in message
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gzubeck wrote:
Steven Sullivan wrote:
B. Smith wrote:

My only clue that proved to me that Sony was pulling the plug on SACD
was with Thomas Schippers' recording of Alexander Nevsky by Prokofiev.
For ages it was not available on CD. About a year ago it came out on
a
single layer SACD. Fast forward to a few weeks ago. I wander into
Tower, and see that Sony has released onto CD a series of "Great
Performances" ....and there it was.....all remastered in great sound,
and at a amazing low price of $7.99!!!! For me, that was the sign
that
resisting had paid off. Thank you Sony, for saving me money on
equipment. So long SACD (and DVD-A for that matter), it's been great
not knowing you.



Well, in a similar vein, all of the recent Bob Dylan SACDs (which were
Sony
hybrids) have now been rereleased in CD-only format.

One might ask: why?



In one word i-tunes/pod....SACD is expensive and not flexible...


Again,this makes no sense. I can rip the CD tracks from a hybrid SACD and
convert
them to mp3/AAC as easily
as I can from a regular CD...and have done, for my personal archive.

The Dylan SACDs were hybrids. (Although 'Blood on the Tracks' also
appeared
as a stereo SACD, in the format's earlier days).



I think you are thinking of "Blonde on Blonde". As far as I know, this was
the only Dylan released on SACD before the big remastering. Have sold mine
in favor of the multichannel...still have the original CD.