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SACD & DVDA done?

It appears as though Blue Ray has all but put the nail in HDDVD's coffin. Will that end DVDA? Perhaps I'm missing something, but it appears as though even Sony is not including SACD on their Blue Ray players. Does that mean the end of SACD is soon to follow. I was sort of waiting to see which of these formats would win, even considered a Denon that could do both and HDCD. It now appears as though I should hold out for a Blue Ray player. Will Sony abandon SACD and hoist another hi rez audio format that is incompatible with older players on us. If Sony planned to continue to support SACD, you'd think they'd offer it on their Blue Ray players too, no?
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johnnyb53
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I think the Blu-ray spec is so complicated, demanding, and dense, that it's difficult to get a Blu-ray drive to share formats with anything. The first ones couldn't even play CDs. As they work things out, the Blu-ray players appear to be able to play more formats. For example, the entry-level BDP-300 plays std. DVD, CD, and Blu-ray.

And actually, the 60- and 80-GB models of Playstation 3 play SACD as well as Blu-ray.

Pansonic's higher Blu-ray player, the DMP-BD10AK, also plays DVD-A.
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czbbcl
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SACD will continue to be supported by the smaller more specialized recording studios such as channel classics and fidelis etc etc. It will not be supported by the large recording studios which are aimed at the more pedestrian consumer oriented buyer who prefers mp3's and ipods. IMO
pzuckerman
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There are recording labels which still produce SACD. I haven't seen a new DVD Audio release in a long time and many DVDA titles are no longer available except in the used market. I predict that Blu Ray surround sound music releases will replace both DVDA and SACD.
bigamp
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Last I heard, the blu-ray spec did not include a provision for the SACD format. But manufacturers may still make blu-ray players that play SACDs. The spec also doesn't require blu-ray players to play DVDs, but current models do because it's still a popular format.

It's strange that the HDMI 1.3 spec calls for SACD via HDMI. Sony doesn't call for SACD on its own blu-ray players, yet the HDMI group calls for SACD on the preferred connection of blu-ray players. Weird.
tomryan
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SACD is a tiny niche market now, probably will be completely gone within a few years. DVD-A is dead. Blu-Ray will probably be dead quicker than DVD-A. Apple is now downloading movies and Blockbuster will start soon.
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