I don't believe you guys. Nobody(except President Obama) is going to make you buy anything (and Sony can't afford to enlist the President's help).
This project may fail and it is definitely being done, in part, to make more money off the back catalog. So what?
If it does succeed, DSD downloads and the variety of equipment built by various high end companies to play them could make high res digital the best sounding, most convenient format available without question. Not for the guys who will die clutching their vinyl records, of course. Not that there's anything wrong with that. I think this is still a free country.
So let's see what Sony does before we condemn it. It could be a good thing and might even get some new people interested in the high end. I hope the consensus would be that that would be a good thing.
This project may fail and it is definitely being done, in part, to make more money off the back catalog. So what?
If it does succeed, DSD downloads and the variety of equipment built by various high end companies to play them could make high res digital the best sounding, most convenient format available without question. Not for the guys who will die clutching their vinyl records, of course. Not that there's anything wrong with that. I think this is still a free country.
So let's see what Sony does before we condemn it. It could be a good thing and might even get some new people interested in the high end. I hope the consensus would be that that would be a good thing.