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SACD hybrids bad policy from Sony/Columbia?

Just read today that the whole collection of Bob Dylan remasters that were done last year on SACD hybrid are due to be released on CD soon at a much lower price.

To me this defeat the Trojan Horse policy of sneeking SACD's into households where there is no SACD player and maybe encouraging a SACD player purchase at a later date based on the knowledge that the buyer already has SACD's in his collection.

Furthermore when future SACD hybrids come on sale perhaps buyers may now hang off to see if what happened with the Dylan releases is repeated.
Indeed those who wanted the set and are a few short and have no SACD player will be able to but 3 CD remasters for the price of 2 Hybrids.

In terms of marketing SACD I think this a major mistake.
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sean
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I would rather have ONE format ( either SACD or DVD-A ) and have all of the recordings fully optimized for that format than to have two different formats with neither of them working nearly as well as they could or offering the recordings that i and others want to purchase. Personally, i would think that DVD-A would have a better shot at something like this due to the average citizen thinking of DVD as being both "newer" and "higher tech" than CD's. Even just going to a fully optimized standard of 24/96 KHZ in the recording / mixing / mastering process would be a big step forward. Sean
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dweller
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Dr. Diamond/Rsbeck: Yes. I looked at a "Recording of the Month"s descriptive notes to see if it was available on SACD.
Only CD was mentioned.
A month or two later the it's available on SACD.
The magazine in question let this reader DOWN!
darrylhifi
498 posts
 
While High Rez Marketing certainly leaves alot to be desired, I would not read too much into it. Had the situation been reversed , and they released The Redbooks First, and we had to wait 8 months for The SACD versions, we would be bitching we are second class citizens having to wait for "our" format of choice. SACDS will be around for a long while for us to enjoy. But your correct , as if it were not for the internet, trying to find a local shop in your neighborhood , with an up to date catalog os SACD releases , would be next to impossible for Mass Market America
rsbeck
887 posts
 
The average citizen who might think DVD-A is the way to go because it has that new-fangled DVD right in the title so it must be high tech as all get out,
is probably not the target customer or early adopter of high rez digital music
playback. The early adopters are buying up SACD's. And, I can understand to
a degree how *some* people can't find SACD titles to interest them, I've already bought over 100 of them. By reading the reviews on WWW.SACDINFO.COM, I have been able to buy with some helpful info at my disposal and I've been really happy about all of my purchases. For my taste, there are a lot of great SACD's for sale right now. I'm not waiting for
any war to settle. I'm voting with my pocketbook. For SACD.
rsbeck
887 posts
 
Between Dweller, Diamond and I, you have empirical evidence that a segment of the music buying population is not wary of SACD's, we're wary of buying redbook CD's that will be obsolete the moment the SACD version is released.
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