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Latest SACD News - Very Interesting.

Rumor is one of the main record companies had decided to stop CD production and switch to SACD/CD hybrids for all new titles. As Sony cannot as yet produce hybrids, it is assumed that the label in question has to be Universal (Philips).


The news, announced at a Sony-Philips press conference, was that one million consumer SACD players have been sold so far. The prognosis for SACD is total worldwide sales of 6 million players (in whatever form) in 2003 and 13 million in 2004.

Sounds like great news, but there are still no SACD titles I want to buy; and I refuse to pay more for a hybrid CD I can't use.


More information is at: http://www.stereophile.com/shownews.cgi?1353

sugarbrie

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sugarbrie OP
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Thinking more about it; I did not even get a CD player until the summer of 1990; or 6+ years after CD's came out. I still use that old player in my work office (Rotel RCD-855). It still sounds great, and more analog than many new CD players.

So I guess I still have many years until the later part of this decade to decide whether it is worth it to get a SACD player. I still play a little vinyl regularly.

sugarbrie OP
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Phillips has said they would no longer let anyone use that "CD" label on non-redbook CDs. There are some already out there has Prpixel notes.

I agree that 1 million is not a lot of SACD players (even 13 million). Since we all have different taste, no SACD is going platinum on billboard anytime soon. I count Ten CD players we own when you add in boomboxes, walkmans, and the cars; not even counting the computer's CD (2 more, plus work). And there are 290 million people in the USA alone. The number of CD/DVD players must be in the multiple billions worldwide.

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