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I checked very important but I will never play the CD layer as I feel the CD layer is necessary for SACD/CDs to replace CDs and become the dominate format so for that reason we hybrids. At least until everyone owns an SACD or DVD/SACD player.

I prefer single/dual layer SACDs to hybrids. Cheaper to produce and longer play time.

SACD hybrid is the future. DVD-A is meaningless because it is too far behind.

If I am going to pay $15-25 for a disc, I want to play it in ANY system! Hybrid discs are a technology well within reach for these companies! I can only imagine that it is pure ignorance that keeps them producing proprietary, one-system-only-type discs!

What the heck is a SACD/CD hybrid?

If you want to play the SACD in the car, walkman, or second rig. do you buy the cd two times?

I like the idea of SACD hybrids becoming the standard for a quality music carrier. I'm not interested in DVD-A, with or without a hybrid layer, because the DVD-A layer seems to be aimed at home theater lovers and requires a non-standardized menu system to find a specific audio setting. SACD is a friendlier format—especially for those who listen to two-channel systems.

When you listen to vinyl, you're reminded how unimportant and insignificant SACD/DVD/DVD-A/SACD/CD hybrids, etc, formats really are.

Great! Two inferior formats on one disc! Now, as soon as someone figures out how to produce an LP/SACD hybrid, let me know.

I just want one of the Hi Rez formats to survive. I currently subscribe to the SACD camp, which alreay has Hybrids. If SACD for some reason folds and DVD-A go's on it has to have hybrid technology to sell it to the masses.

I have absolutely no interest in DVD-Audio. The sooner they drop this loser format the quicker we can get all studios releasing on SACD. DVD-Audio has no idea what the marketplace wants and they have made a total mess of high-rez acceptance.

Do not want to buy the same title twice, Ho he able to use it at home and in the car.

Currently I have an SACD player and really like the hybrid discs which I can just drop into any CD player. I like that. I can listen at work, upstairs in the den, or taking a walk—or just drop it in the boom box. With DVD you are stuck with very limited play-back possibilities in comparison. That was a major reason I went with SACD. I think it would be great if they did that. Most of us use some kind of mobile music. How do they expect the format to survive if it's not easy to use?

WHO CARES? Come on, get real, neither format is gonna amount to a bag of peanuts. The younger generation that should have carried the torch is into electronic downloads, for crying out loud! I think it's time to realize that no matter how good SACD and DVD-A may sound, they are not going to amount much.

Beings I have a SACD/CD player at home and not a DVD-A player, It is not important to me now. But, for the DVD-A (as well as SACD) format to survive and grow, I think it is very important.

As far at the DVD-A hybrids go, I think they had no choice without placing the noose around their own necks. SACD definitly made a smart tactical marketing move, and that may be the round that claims the fight in the end. The only reason the fight will linger now is companies like Marantz, Onkyo, Pioneer, etc, are fueling both flames by bringing out players that do both.

DVD-Audio hybrids are somewhat important to me, in the sense that there is the possibility that some titles I like, which sound awful in their current digital form, may get proper remasters and hybrids would allow me to enjoy them without buying a DVD-A player.

We have an excellent format in SACD. While I don't deny that DVD-A can be very very good, done right, I do think that if only one format should remain, it should be SACD. If DVD-A is to survive, I sincerely hope that all new releases will be without audible watermarking.

Hybrids seem to be the only way to go. It is a leading thing for me to look for when buying SACD'S.Realy needed is hybrid SACD/DVDAUDIO'S

I have the music already. Fine vinyls, fine red books cds. And my players are very fine LP12 - ML390S - the players and I don't care about formats we can't use.

until a format is considered the winner the consumer will have to cover as many bases as possible

SACD is a disaster! You probably know that, too, but you are too dependent on big bucks advertisements from Sony to tell your subscribers the truth. DVD-Audio is, on the other hand, a near perfect product. Your technical staff will tell you that, but you have to ask them! They will also tell you that above 7khz, the old CD system is better than SACD. The upper frequency range on SACD is noise that heats up the tweeter. SACDs do not have to have music information in that region, they will still heat up the tweeter and give the tweeter bad working conditions in its lower working area.Be a leader! The truth is out there! Show some backbone and be the first major hi-fi magazine to put things into perspective!

The more features they can cram into a sub-$20 disc the better.

If record companies start stocking in stores both 5.1 DVD-A and two-channel CD onto one media, then Joe Public (even if he/she initially went only to buy a CD) is going to flip it over give that surround 5.1 program a spin in his DVD player! And he'll never turn back. Fait accompli! Yes, this removes the only remaining reason for people not to buy DVD-A/V.

I like to listen to music at its best. If this helps to get more DVD-A out, the sooner the better. Abkco's recent release of the Stones has set the standard.

What for DVD-Audio when we have SACD ???

bet on SACD

will them be playeable on a turntable too?

It must be possible to play music discs (SACD, DVD-Audio) in the car, PC, etc, without changing all the equipment.

Until one prevails, I will not buy either! I have heard 24/96 discs in my home, they are very good, perhaps 8 on a scale of 10. Vinyl is a 10 on most LPs.[let's face it, not all LPs were good!] And 10 years down the line, the next latest and greatest thing will arrive. Talk about corporate greed, always having to re-invent themselves at our expense! Ask yourself: How many SACD's are recorded originally in DSD? There are very few, if any! And, as for watermarking or copy-protected discs, NO THANK YOU!