Yes,
because SACD could not create enough buying customers in large scale, they possibly decided to cancel the mentioned releases.
But at the beginning of this century, things were different:
My local library sold issues of HiFi News (from 2000 - 2004) and I could not resist buying some of them because they (as I now realized) made me to acquire a multichannel system with an universal SACD/DVDA player. And I'm very happy with it.
While reading these old issues, I realized that they were writing about DVDA and SACD a lot. There seemed to be a great interest in both SACD and DVDA at that time.
And possibly that was the reason why they made a lot of announcements ....
DVDA is dead and that is a fact (even if they did release excellent Beatles Love and Door's Perception Box late last year). And DVDA releases were mostly POP/ROCK/PROG ... so get a univeral player and those discs while you still can.
Most SACDs of today are classical music ... and multi-channel and audibly very good. I believe SACD will survive in this nische market.
best regards,
Esa
PS. we are now in a similar situation with HD DVD/Blu Ray as DVDA/SACD were some five years ago. The lack of interest will make both these format obsolete, too.
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