SACD vs DVD audio vs 24/96..??

There are actually many more than 25 SACD titles, at least 50! *grin* I am the owner of an SCD-1 from Sony, I was sold when I heard it. In one word... Awesome! My prediction is that Sony will release a player sometime next year that plays CD, SACD, DVD and DVD-A. The price of the current players will fall. The DVD-A software will be plentiful and inexpensive, and eventually SACD will die; probably in the next 3 to 5 years. The major factor will be the availability of software for DVD-A vs. SACD, the next will be the lower price of DVD-A vs. SACD software, finally, the price and availability of hardware will be the death of SACD. It will hang on for certain purposes and certain people, just like Beta has done, but it is the loosing format in the end. That is my opinion. Knowing all that, I still bought the player and I am buying SACD software... Because IT SOUNDS SO GOOD!! It's wonderful to waste money on stuff like this, isn't it?? (In case you're wondering... I also have a couple of MD recorders and players, same story! But for now, I have decent music while traveling!)

I tend to agree.I belive in the neext year or so they will have players that will do the 3 major formats.

Sony has released an sacd player in Europe that will street here at less than 800 this fall. As those prices fall, I'd expect more sales and more recordings to be available, and could be a decent installed base when/if the dvd-a crowd gets their copy-protection act together.

I don't know which format will come out on top, maybe neither one will make it. All I can say is that we audiophiles have been waiting for 15 years to have a truly high resolution format and now that it's here I'm going for it. I just ordered the SCD-777ES from J&R Music World. They are selling this machine for $1799. That's like half price! Considering how the thing is built and how it reportedly sounds with conventional CD's I think it is a real bargain.Yes, I'm sure that Sony will soon bring out a machine for $1000 or less but you can be sure that it won't be built like this baby. I agree with the reviewers that SACD is the way to go for purist audiophiles. I will probably get a do all player for my Home Theater system when they come out but I'm sticking to a purist 2 channel aproach for my serious listening. There is some confusion as to compatibility of 6 channel SACD discs. Acording to SONY, there will be a 2 channel mix on all discs, therefore your 2 channel player will not become obsolete (unless the format does). I'll post again after the machine arrives and I have evaluated it.

None will survive... these formats are only for audiophiles, and no one else can afford it. All the record companies wont produce discs for them if no one has players. Everything will go mp3, but thats about it. Why not just get the ebst CD players and not worry about SCD or DVDA etc.. they arent going to get the support. I guess depending on your music tastes it will though, but its what id buy. 10,000,000 CD tracks.. 50 SCD.. go figure