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Read this:
"LG announced a dual format Blu-ray and HD DVD player! It was asked at the Pioneer conference if they plan on a like device and they said no at this time. Also of note, no DVD-Audio support on Pioneer's new Blu-ray players and i am not sure if SACD will be supported. As Sony's new Blu-ray unit does not support SACD, as reported within our industry news page, one can only wonder if there is any future for the format."
"It is now 2:30pm and fortunately my camping out for Bill Gates' conference is directly in front of a quite a few high-end audio exhibits. As such, have been meeting and chatting with various manufactures, distributors, and members of the press. During discussions it appears the general consensus that both DVD-Audio and SACD are dead. Don't blame me, i did not kill them. The real question my friends should be 'Which high-definition video format will prevail and what are the format's audio capabilities?'"
"Perhaps the 7.1-channel dts HD and TrueHD will be adopted by various audiophile labels."
http://www.enjoythemusic.com/ces2007/sunday/
Who is this guy? What does he know about the actual situation with the SACD format? It's incredible! You have to laugh.
Cheers! ;-D
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Post by Julien January 11, 2007 (2 of 25)
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He's a guy who chatted with many "specialists" and now believes that he fully understands the whole picture of world's audio and video market evolution!
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Post by Perigo January 12, 2007 (3 of 25)
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Post by deckerm January 12, 2007 (4 of 25)
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Post by Beagle January 12, 2007 (5 of 25)
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"it appears the general consensus that both DVD-Audio and SACD are dead."
No. 1: At 2 new titles per day, SACD ain't dead yet.
No. 2: HDCD is dead, but not gone (you can still buy them).
No. 3: I've read a lot of business news where Blue-ray machines are not getting to market on schedule (and release being delayed by 6 mos to a year). There are problems: the finer resolution of blue-spectrum light means that aiming the laser is a lot more difficult. You can lithograph chips by the millions, but servo-mechanisms need to be built and shipped intact and maintained and fixed. Big Blue may be the first to push up daisies.
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dvda-sacd quoted:
"As Sony's new Blu-ray unit does not support SACD, as reported within our industry news page, one can only wonder if there is any future for the format."
I wonder if they're talking about the BDP-S1, Sony's first-generation BD Player (which is actually a Pioneer clone) introduced late 2006 or about the really new models, which were first shown behind the scenes at this CES.
Admittedly, there's no sign of SACD playback here
http://www.watch.impress.co.jp/av/docs/20070108/ces06.htm
but there's no information to the contrary either. There's generally very little detail in terms of features. Not even typenumbers, other than code names "Sapphire 1" and ~2.
I'm still optimistic Sony's going to add it once they've got their BD Player development on the rails (after PlayStation 3 and their BD Recorders).
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Post by bmoura January 13, 2007 (7 of 25)
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dvda-sacd said:
Read this:
"LG announced a dual format Blu-ray and HD DVD player! It was asked at the Pioneer conference if they plan on a like device and they said no at this time. Also of note, no DVD-Audio support on Pioneer's new Blu-ray players and i am not sure if SACD will be supported. As Sony's new Blu-ray unit does not support SACD, as reported within our industry news page, one can only wonder if there is any future for the format."
"It is now 2:30pm and fortunately my camping out for Bill Gates' conference is directly in front of a quite a few high-end audio exhibits. As such, have been meeting and chatting with various manufactures, distributors, and members of the press. During discussions it appears the general consensus that both DVD-Audio and SACD are dead. Don't blame me, i did not kill them. The real question my friends should be 'Which high-definition video format will prevail and what are the format's audio capabilities?'"
"Perhaps the 7.1-channel dts HD and TrueHD will be adopted by various audiophile labels."
http://www.enjoythemusic.com/ces2007/sunday/
Who is this guy? What does he know about the actual situation with the SACD format? It's incredible! You have to laugh.
Cheers! ;-D
Well, he's been anti-SACD from day 1 of the format. So those comments are not surprising.
In earlier postings on his web site, he referred to SACD as Sony's proprietary audio format, etc etc....
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Well, one of Sony's two second-generation BD Players is now officially announced: the BDP-S300. Various new features including AVCHD playback (a new digital camcorder disc format), 1080p video output and, notably, RBCD playback (missing on the initial BDP-S1) but still no SACD.
Let's see what the other model will offer. Details on the BDP-S500 other than the typenumber haven't been disclosed yet.
http://news.sel.sony.com/en/press_room/consumer/home_audio_video/blu-ray_disc/release/28270.html
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Post by Claude February 28, 2007 (10 of 25)
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I guess Sony is rushing these Bluray players out (the first one came with no audio CD playback - ridiculous!), so the missing SACD playback doesn't necessarily reflect the official Sony SACD policy.
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