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These people have not even marketed DVD Audio and SACD with any degree of business acumen. What makes us think that they could even accomplish this?
While SACD and DVD-A seem pretty much format roadkill, do you have any hopes that the new Blu-ray and HD-DVD formats will use their high-resolution audio capability?
I am 55 years old and I am too old to start replacing my music again! The music industry said the CD was the ultimate in sound and that was a baldfaced lie! The reason SCAD and DVD-A are dead is because of coporate greed, no one wanted to share the pie, they wanted it all to themselves. I'm glad that SCAD and DVD-A are dead, serves them right. Same thing is going to happen with Blu-ray and HD-DVD. Besides with all the work going to China, who do the electronic manufacturers think is going to be able to afford to buy all this new crap anyway?
If the promise of higher resolution music on SACD and DVD-A didn't make the Walmart crowd rush out to buy either one, what makes anyone think Blu-Ray and HD-DVD will work any better? The vast majority of people listen to music as background noise, and good ol' Red Book CD is more than sufficient. The "high-end" people who "listen" are too small a niche market.