Universal supports SACD


Universal Music Group just announced that it will support SACD with the objective of making SACD the preferred recording format.

http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/010825/lasa001a.html

Also, Sony just added another manufacturing facility that is producing 500,000 SACDs/month and has a capacity to turn out over 1 million SACDs/month. This is in addition to its two other facilities. Sony announced that there are currently 440 SACD titles (170 Sony) and there would be 1,000 by March 2002. That would mean an average of 80-100 new SACDs/month for the next 6 months.

Looks to me that SACD greatest shortcoming (the software) is being addressed.
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I don't understand why Sony is producing only single layer for its own SACDs. It only costs about 10 cents more to produce a hybrid disc.

I'm surprised by the number of SACDs that Sony is manufacturing per month. To keep up the volume, Sony will be flooding the market with discs. There's no way consumers would buy 500,000 or more discs that their new factory is producing, let along what their other two facilities are producing. There's also at least one non-Sony manufacturing facility. It means that SACD software prices will need to come down to increase the volume.

I think that the support of Universal is a significant event. I just hope they release discs faster than Virgin Records.