Its no surprise to me. Bryston discontinued the the BCD-1 over a year ago for the same reason, no available drives.
Phillips needs a large consumer market to keep up production and that is dwindling.
And I am not certain I see the need for real time CD playback given that the "ripped to file" systems are at least as good or better sonically, and they need much less expensive CDROM/DVDROM drives and a few chips to implement.
Phillips needs a large consumer market to keep up production and that is dwindling.
And I am not certain I see the need for real time CD playback given that the "ripped to file" systems are at least as good or better sonically, and they need much less expensive CDROM/DVDROM drives and a few chips to implement.