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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.
ben_campbell
rsbeck
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The point is that we don't know WHY Dylan remasters are being released in CD, so to forcast DAMAGE to SACD, you first have to GUESS at the INTENTION behind the release, then you have to add CONJECTURE -- after you've added conjecture to guesswork, you use that as the basis for PREDICTING that if your guesswork and conjecture are correct, then it MIGHT damage SACD.

rsbeck
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Metralla -- I read about Mobile Audio SACD players in some of the coverage from the recent CES and then my local car stereo guy also told me that SACD
players for the car are in the pipeline.
rsbeck
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The other point that was missed is that three posters said that, rather than
a CD release damaging SACD, we are hesitant to buy CD's because we'd rather wait for the SACD. So, some *might* hesitate to buy a hybrid, waiting instead for a cheaper CD-only remaster, but that's assuming this will be a trend and it assumes that Sony will stop issuing the hybrid version first, which are huge assumptions, seeing as how Sony is behind SACD. Finally, how many people are hesitating to buy CD's because they are waiting for an SACD version? How many people will actually hold off from buying hybrids because they'd rather wait on the off-chance that a cheaper CD-only version will be released later? Sorry to beat a dead horse, but I think it is a lot of idle speculation. I *know* what I am doing. I am buying up SACD's. In the last few months a lot of music that interests me has appeared on SACD and it is extremely well engineered. My collection is 100+ and growing. As I've written, I am voting with my pocketbook for High Rez. I will not let the "sky is falling" anti-SACD crowd dissuade me. I think the concern over a possible sell-through CD-only version is much ado about nothing.
ben_campbell OP
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Rsbeck I think in your last post you've argued your point well.

I know you think I take every opportunity to kick SACD-I don't and I truly hope to be able to return to it one day (in earnest)when it is a level that suits me.

This post was expressed out of actual surprise at this news.

There is much to be decided and we take different views on predicting what will happen with SACD.
Time will tell.
I think we both approach music in different ways.
However I am glad your SACD playback brings you much joy.

As for the sky falling I don't know about that but here in Glasgow at the moment it is absolutely pissing down.
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