On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 11:20:11AM +0100, Kai Rode wrote:
>
> >However the huge bonus of SACD is that you can have a convential CD-Audio
> >layer on the disc which _will_ play in regular CD players. That is what
> >will sell the format (if at all) to the public.
>
> Yes, you can have that layer. But this feature is not used at the moment
> because:
>
> - it makes the discs more expensive
> - as long as the same music is available as CD much cheaper, nobody
> is going to buy the SACD just because he might upgrade in a few years
All of the Telarc SACD discs have the CD compatible layer (are hybrid
discs). The Delos disc I have is hybrid and it appears that all of the
DMP discs are also. In fact, from what I can tell, Sony is the only
manufacturer not making hybrid SACDs.
>
> >It's something that could be an enhanced feature of regular CDs (looking at
> >it from the other perspective), so if they were cheap enough to make then
> >all future releases could be SACD with the CD layer
>
> Think like somebody from the marketing department: it must never be
> the price of a regular CD because it's higher quality. So they *have*
> to also make it as a regular CD because many people won't buy it at
> the higher price.
This is certainly a possibility, but at least SACD offers the potential
of compatible discs with existing CD players. With DVD-Audio you don't
even have that.
>
> >Of the two though, SACD is the obvious one to back - the players are here
> >now and reasonably priced, and the backwards compatibility will mean people
> >will be more willing to invest in the music for it. DVD-A only has the
> >strength of the DVD name - everyone will assume they can play them on their
> >DVD-Video player and be very disappointed when they can't.
>
> Uhm, I only have two Audio-DVDs and both *are* DVD-Video compatible.
> The recordings are in 192/24/2ch or 96/24/5ch and the same recordings
> are on the disc as 96/24/2ch/LPCM or Dolby Digital for backwards
> compatibility. As a matter of fact, I only have a DVD-Video player
> and the DVD-As play just fine.
Are you saying that the higher-resolution versions play on your
DVD-Video player or the Dolby Digital version? If its the higher
resolution versions (the 192/24/2ch or 96/24/5ch) then that really
surprises me as I thought that wouldn't be compatible (I own no
DVD-Audio discs myself).
>
> So it looks like they are not aiming for compatibility with CD but
> for compatibility with DVD-Video, which is just fine.
For DVD-Audio discs to be compatible with DVD-Video players sounds like
a good thing. However, if only to the extent that they include a Dolby
Digital track then I'm not nearly so interested. For me personally, I
find that the sound quality of Dolby Digital is not nearly as acceptable
without accompanying video (I think I pay closer attention to sound when
not distracted by video).
I currently own a Sony SCD-1 SACD player and about 40 SACD's and,
overall, have been very pleased with SACD. Some of the discs I own are
truely superb sounding.
Bob
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