Phil Leigh;277471 Wrote: > I wasn't arguing - I was agreeing. SACD is a low-volume niche format and > will stay that way until it finally vanishes. You might find that > annoying. Same would go for an early adopter of HD-DVD. However, I > suppose you are going to tell me that HD-DVD isn't dead either? > > So far there have been 5-6 thousand SACD's released in the last eight > years, of which half must be classical. I maintain that this means it > has failed to achieve it's objective of ousting CD as the format of > choice. Since therefore there is no real commercial leverage, it will > continue to be a niche diversion. > > That's the reality.There's a difference between a niche market (SACD) and a > dead format (HD-DVD). Agreed, it has failed to oust CD -- is that a failure? As a consumer of high-res audio, I think not. Just because those were Sony's plans (and I do agree that SACD failed to replace CD), doesn't necessarily mean it's a total abject failure. If they just didn't waste money trying to push it on people who had no interest in it, it could actually even be a commercial success.
It has a market -- how can that be considered a failure? -- Dusty Chalk ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dusty Chalk's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17980 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32967 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
