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Why is it, that despite the popularity of DVD's, there is still a dearth of DVD's by bands that have had many VHS videos out? I just cannot find certain music titles on DVD by bands like Rush, The Church, Yngwie Malmsteen, Judas Priest, The The, etc. (just to name a few). And don't get me started on movie releases! Don't those dufuses who own rights to, let's just use 'Saturday Night Fever' as one example of many, know how profitable such a realease on DVD would be?
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I think there's too many competing formats, and where DVD-DD and DTS are vastly superior to VHS, both are compressed and are not as good as CD. For example, I love Talking Head's Stop Making Sense, and ranks as one of my best sounding music videos, but the Stop Making Sense CD has superior audio.Therefore, audiophiles prefer CD, SACD, 96K, or DVD-A.
Mainstream buyers prefer buying CDs because they cost less and can be played in cars, etc. My sons go to a lot of concerts and buy many CDs, but can't watch a music video.
I am not sure that Music DVDs sell that well--even though out of my 30 DVDs, about 20 are Music videos. Since I bought a SACD player in December, I've bought about 30 SACDS, two 96K DADs, 10 CDs, and only one DVD--Fantasia.
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