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Any Blu Ray player that will also play SACD's ?

I am close to buying a Blu Ray player but is there any players out that will also play SACD's.

I have a Cary SACD player that play's SACD's but only in stereo.
I also have a Denon 5910 that I could move to another room to make room for a new Blu Ray player but I hate to give up on my SACD's Multi Channel and for that matter DVD-A discs Multi Channel .

Any Blu Ray player that will play SACD's ?
Or is there any plans for one?

If not, thanks alot Sony!
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john_z
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I asked that exact question to a Sony rep via their website live chat feature earlier this week. I really wanted to try their BDP-S2000ES last fall but it lacked DTS-MA so I waited. Then their new 5000ES came out and it will decode all the new codecs but still lacks SACD. The rep said there are no plans at Sony to include SACD in the future for their stand-alone Blu-ray players. Hopefully that will change but I'm not holding my breath.

She couldn't tell me if the reason was technical or otherwise, but Sony was pretty quick to incorporate multichannel SACD capability in their DVD players a few years ago so it appears that their support for the format may be waning.. time will tell.
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