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SACD & DVDA done?

It appears as though Blue Ray has all but put the nail in HDDVD's coffin. Will that end DVDA? Perhaps I'm missing something, but it appears as though even Sony is not including SACD on their Blue Ray players. Does that mean the end of SACD is soon to follow. I was sort of waiting to see which of these formats would win, even considered a Denon that could do both and HDCD. It now appears as though I should hold out for a Blue Ray player. Will Sony abandon SACD and hoist another hi rez audio format that is incompatible with older players on us. If Sony planned to continue to support SACD, you'd think they'd offer it on their Blue Ray players too, no?
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johnnyb53
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I think the Blu-ray spec is so complicated, demanding, and dense, that it's difficult to get a Blu-ray drive to share formats with anything. The first ones couldn't even play CDs. As they work things out, the Blu-ray players appear to be able to play more formats. For example, the entry-level BDP-300 plays std. DVD, CD, and Blu-ray.

And actually, the 60- and 80-GB models of Playstation 3 play SACD as well as Blu-ray.

Pansonic's higher Blu-ray player, the DMP-BD10AK, also plays DVD-A.
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