SA-CD/DVD-A?

DVD-A incompatibility problems? I too have an inexpensive all-DVDs player, a Pioneer ...563. It plays every DVD-A and SACD I've purchased and sounds good enough for now. The classical stuff I buy sounds great.

I prefer DVD-A over SACD slightly but I can't tell you exactly why...maybe I have a slight aversion to the monster company $ony.
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SACD and DVD-A obviously didn't catch on and take over. It still has a small slot in record stores. And it isn't new anymore. A lot of audiophiles predicted it was going to take the world by storm - It didn't. They were wrong.

I think the reason they were wrong was that there is a small percentage of people that appreciate quality music. So, where is the compelling event for the general public to get into "hi-rez". Not only that but a lack of a marketing push pretty much sealed its fate.

That being said I don't think it will go away any time soon, and as mentioned above, it will fill a niche for audiophiles for years to come.

I prefer LPs. Hi-rez sounds better than CD but not as good as LPs. There’s really no disputing that (although some foolish people will try). LPs cover the best sound (if properly recorded of course), and CDs cover just about all recorded music available. And I'm not about to add another format and software – two formats are enough for me.

Rob

It's still not that grin Bob. Going to your analogy you could likely still find a used (ormaybe new) serivable Betamax player if you wanted to. So you wouldn't totally be up $%!# creek. sony long supported betamax long after the public dismissed it as a mass market format. I imagine the same will be true of SACD (and DVD-A to a point with Toshiba and Panasonic) between Sony and a few of the audiophile equipment companies. Granted you might not be able to find $99 players everywhere, but I don't feel it will be a grim of a picture as you paint it to be. My $0.02.

Aaron

meant to say NOT THAT GRIM BOB. Typo.

True, I don't see many SACD or DVDA in record stores, but who buys from record stores anyway? They never have much in the way of classical music on any media. Check out the web sources (such as elusivedisc.com or acousticsounds.com) and you will see many discs available.