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HDCD a flash in the pan already??

I started looking for a new CD Player a while back but put the search on the backburner for a bit(needed a new sub & picked up a Onix Rocket UFW-10)so now it's back to CD Player hunting and it seems to me there are less HDCD players coming out then when I orginally researched. For example the new Music Player 25.2 isn't HDCD ready where the CD-25 was nor is Onix's best CD Player CD-2(their lower one xcd-99 is). Even though they're out of my price range players newly released players like the Rega Apollo,Cambridge Azur 640 or Naim CD5i do not appear to be HDCD. Is this another format that isn't going to make it or just a option on lower end players. I was recently at a couple local CD stores (Borders, Fye and Barnes and Noble) and there were at the most 3 HDCD Cds there none of which I would be interested in.. Starting to seem like HDCD shouldn't even be an option to look for in my CD Player search.. Any comments?
pmt1209
pmt1209 OP
44 posts
 
HERE'S A BIG UPDATE ON HDCD!!!

I wrote one of the dealers who does a lot of the modifying on Music Hall and Onix CD Player and asked him why the newest players are not coming out with HDCD and he said and I quote:
"HDCD is no longer supported by Microsoft, who bought Pacific Microsonics, its inventor."
I can't see MicroRipOff selling they're rights to HDCD so this could be the beginning of the demise of HDCD as we know it.. Well this really su@%$!! Why can't Bill just stick with killing us in the computer world..
tbg
5,263 posts
 
Why does MS list the many HDCDs on it webpage?
pmt1209 OP
44 posts
 
Where at Tbg? Every search I do sends me to
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/forpros/AudioProd.aspx
matrix
305 posts
 
Flash in the pan 10 years ago... Not something I would completly concern myself with for sure.
jaybo
4,478 posts
 
HDCD like dolby and THX are just licensing(use of logo/commitment to standards) deals. most new standards redbook stuff is certainly on a par with HDCD. like THX, its just not important anymore.
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