Ronald C.F. Antony wrote:
UHJ Stereo requires no special equipment, because primarily the majority of users can use it as stereo material. The same wasn't true for the 90s experiments, which required different, considerably more expensive media, and toying around with remotes and menu structures to play back a stereo version, provided one was even available.
"90s experiments": SACD began 1999, DVD-Audio in 2000. DVD-A has been supported to around 2005, SACD exists still today, on a small scale.
Further the 90s experiment involved DRM-crippled media, which means that even though one already paid a hefty premium over a CD, one wasn't able to rip the disk and put the music on a portable player, first due to DRM, second because a portable player wouldn't know how to interpret surround sound media streams.
That is probably not the point here, even if DRM has clearly been overrated by the industry. (And of course they have ripped DVD-A, and now SACD...)
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