Will Wadio ever make an SACD player?

memory strick anyone? another defuncted format.

News flash you naysayers. Sony just introduced a brand new $10,000.00 SACD player/system at CES.

That's the problem. They need to free up the licensing so that 20 companies have $10K players out there. I'm still waiting for the software floodgates to open, as that's the key. I'll bet their is more than 1000 cd releases for every one SACD. Software limitations are what's strangling the format, IMHO. If the software market was flooded with even just 50-100 times the new releases, the hardware manufacturers would follow.

the days of actually owning physical media are numbered. the future is all about subscription services and premium service levels. the software owners have nothing to gain by distributing 5" optical disks, the profit margins aren't very good except for mega sellers. with subscription services the profit margins are great, even if no one listens to that particular "albumn".

After 5 years and someone's trumpeting 2700 titles available? I got more titles than that on CD right here in this room. Hell, I could buy more than 2700 brand new LP titles right now. I don't see any reason for Wadia to pony up the money for SACD when the catalogue is boring, boring, boring. And a few occasional gems admittedly. I don't have an SACD player and can't see why I would need one. Oh sure, I have some hybrid discs but I got 'em just for titles not because they were SACD. A couple of Dylan discs that I have yet to play and a Stones CD that I do play but I ain't dropping big bucks on a player just so I can listen to Beggars Banquet. I don't see most of the underground music that I listen to (whether it be psych-noise, drone, jazz or avant-classical) ever coming out on SACD.
Since most of us probably have a substantial investment in redbook and are still buying tons all the time, I think that Wadia could focus on their immediate concerns and keep putting out killer CD players while they reorganize.

I have nothing against increased resolution formats but I'm not sure that SACD was ever the answer and it sure has gone nowhere fast. Or perhaps gone nowhere very, very, very slowly would be more accurate. For the meantime, for better and worse, I'm married to redbook. As far as CD's goes. I still buy plenty shiny black discs and spin them on my so-called "turntable" which is having it's own format wars with Classic Records putting out those fancy-dancy 45 RPM discs......