DVD-Audio media, thoughts? worth the cost of the media?

I have a few DVD-A discs and a few older universal players to play them. It is not worth the price you would pay for sure. A lot of releases were simply 24bit/48Khz.  Why not just invest in high resolution downloads instead?  You could actually create dvd-a discs on your laptop from the downloads using appropriate software.  I used to do that a while back but then I just moved on to flac files stored on a HDD.  
As for sound quality compared to sacd, it all depends on the original master and the remastering.  IMHO, no point starting now, you are late to the dvd-audio party by a decade or so given that we have blu-ray audio and much higher resolution DSD downloads.  

That's about what I figured but always been curious.
Guess I will stick with my Blusound full of ripped flac files and Tidal for now.
Maybe the bluray audio has promise?

I was hoping somebody would think it had some redeeming features, after all if we just want to view media on a technical basis then vinyl should have been dead and buried decades ago.
But obviously it is not because of its other virtues, perceived or otherwise.
Thought there may have been a good reason people are asking so much money for DVD-A media!

Many DVD-A discs contain mixes that are otherwise not available in any other format, typically surround mixes. This is one of the reasons they command high prices. There's also a strong collector/completist issue at play as they were never exactly issued in vast quantities

As a viable storage format worth getting in to forget it, unless you already own a bunch I wouldn't bother. I just sold all mine (only a few dozen) and was pleasantly surprised by what people were prepared to pay

You have to rethink your opinion of LPs however, my 50s era mono recordings still sound way better than the vast majority of current recordings