SACD availability

Thank you all for your replies. On Elizabeths's comment: I do not believe any company would invest millions of dollars designing, implementing, marketing and distributing a product just to destroy a competitor's product. It just doesn't make good business sense. This is especially true for Sony, which was struggling financially when they introduced SACD in the market.

I sincerely hope that studios do put out BlueRay music discs. With a storage capacity like that...and the potential to have a very high sampling rate, we can all rejoice. We'll see. Somehow I kind of doubt it because I think we would have seen it by now. But a boy can dream...

There is nothing new in SACD outside of classical, jazz, and the occasional overpriced import reissue.

I have supported SACD since 03 or 04 but i have finally come to realize that the format is dead and I should get out while I can still sell my OOP disks for serious money.

Mark

Other than classical and jazz releases, there are actually new SACDs being released off of new masters right now (e.g., Steely Dan - Aha, Dire Straits - self titled, etc.) but not in the US and they are limited releases (read, very expensive).

There are also a bunch of SACDs still available through amazon and others. Check out sa-cd.net.

"Are SACD discs still being made?"

yep, you can look @

http://store.acousticsounds.com/index.cfm?get=topsellers
http://store.acousticsounds.com/index.cfm?get=results&orderby=13&ComingSoon=true&categoryID=4
http://twitter.com/puresuperaudio
http://sa-cd.net/

^as you can see, SACDs are not only still being made but they are the current best-sellers :)