SACD hybrids bad policy from Sony/Columbia?

Rsbeck,

Love your comments.
We are on the same page except that since most of my purchases are "classical" music, there are not nearly enough new stuff out there. If you haven't heard the new Mahler series, now in the middle of the recording cycle, you are missing some of the most fantastic sound, and music.

Richard

The main point of this thread has been missed as the usual SACD debates are wheeled out.

People who have bought the Dylan Hybrids and paid £13 here in the UK are now going to get the opportunuity to buy the same discs for £8.

Let's say another major artist releases a whole bunch of Hybrids at £13-isn't there a now suspicious bunch of potential buyers who think mmmmm a few months from now the same discs are going to £8.

The whole point I was trying to make is that policy is probably already being abandoned,the whole beauty of hybrids was that potentially in the future non-SACD owners might consider a machine because they had SACD's in their collection.
I would suspect feedback to Sony/Columbia is that the price of the hybrids has held sales back and they are more interested in sales now than pushing this format.

This policy is damaging to the pro-SACD group but they seem unwilling to admit this policy damages the format and may indeed indicate a change in overall policy.

I'll make a prediction since we seem to be moving in this direction,SACD's sales will level out soon,stay stable maybe even healthy and will not increase at all from then and in all probability start to decline.

Then it will be down to the individual labels as to whether they keep it as a niche Audiophile format which they probably will at their high cost.
It won't grow though imho and the vast majority of the best of recorded music in history will never see SACD release.

>>This policy is damaging to the pro-SACD<<

Mmm hmmm....and then what? The sky will fall? Forcasts are just opinions.
They are worth the ether upon which they are written. Sounds like a whole lot of conjecture to me. If W, X, and Y happen, then it MIGHT MAYBE POSSIBLY
cause C and that MIGHT POSSIBLY MAYBE....

In the meantime, more and more SACD's are being released, SACD has entered the mobile audio market, more and more universal and SACD
players are entering the market and my collectiom continues to grow,
and the number of hours spent in front of my SACD player grows and
grows and grows....

Richard --

I am collecting the Mahler series by the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra
conducted by Michael Tilson Thomas. I have the 1st, 3rd, 4th, and 6th.
They are a prized part of my collection. Is that the Mahler series to which
you are referring? Any other classical SACD's you can recommend would
be appreciated. I've been focused mostly on Jazz, but I would like to
build my classical library as well. I have the Bach Golberg Variations
performed by Murray Pehria, which is also wonderful, and a few others.

Rob

Rsbeck writes:

SACD has entered the mobile audio market

I missed that. Do you have a reference?

Regards,