No, you've missed the point

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Posted by Rob Doorack on April 5, 2001 at 13:34:15

In Reply to: You missed the point entirely... posted by Rich on April 5, 2001 at 10:45:45:

No medium survives solely by appealing to a niche audience, no matter if it's better than existing alternatives. Just look at what happened to Betamax - most people agreed that the picture quality was superior to VHS, then bought VHS anyway because the latter format could hold a few hours more at the slowest speed. Getting "early adopters" to buy a new technology is a step to mass marketing the technology, not an end in itself.

SACD is unfortunately a medium without a reason to exist other than to enable Sony to milk some new money from their existing patents and licenses (and also to screw with DVD-A by intentionally sewing confusion about "format wars" among consumers). How many audiophiles are there in the USA? A few hundred thousand maybe? Once Sony sells an SACD player to every one of them, growth of SACD stops. Unlike, for example, DVD which has an obvious qualitative superiority to VHS on just about any TV, the average consumer will not see any reason to buy an SACD player. Plain old Redbook CD sounds great on their Bose lifestyle system or boombox or car audio system. The growth of Napster has largely been fueled by consumer resitance to the price of CDs; do you really think that people who balked at paying $16 for a Limp Bizkit CD will happily pay $30 for a Limp Bizkit SACD?

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Topic - DVD-Audio, are we waiting in vain, what's the deal man?? - audioman 01:12:33 03/30/01 (15)

Why is SACD going to make a hard fall? - Tommart 08:19:07 03/31/01 (10)

Why SACD is going to make a hard fall - Rob Doorack 13:49:54 04/04/01 (8)

The co-workers and friends... - Rich 15:00:29 04/04/01 (7)

Irrelevant? - Rob Doorack 15:16:04 04/04/01 (6)

You missed the point entirely... - Rich 10:45:45 04/05/01 (5)

No, you've missed the point - Rob Doorack 13:34:15 04/05/01 (4)

Re: No, you've missed the point - Roland 12:58:57 04/07/01 (0)

You don't seem ... - Rich 14:59:53 04/05/01 (2)

When the flaws in your argument are exposed, resort to insults, eh Rich? - Rob Doorack 15:51:25 04/05/01 (1)

You've... - Rich 19:33:57 04/05/01 (0)

Tell it, brother! Amen, amen! =) (nt) - D 10:46:20 03/31/01 (0)

DVD-A is VERY CHEESY, and I hope it never catches on! - GNP 11:47:47 03/30/01 (0)

Re: DVD-Audio, are we waiting in vain, what's the deal man?? - Rich 11:18:35 03/30/01 (0)

The creators of DVD-A are struggling to perfect an anti-copy protection scheme that works.. - Elizabeth 08:54:48 03/30/01 (1)

Why wait? - Estes 10:13:15 03/30/01 (0)

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No, you've missed the point - Rob Doorack 13:34:15 04/05/01 (4)

Re: No, you've missed the point - Roland 12:58:57 04/07/01 (0)

You don't seem ... - Rich 14:59:53 04/05/01 (2)

When the flaws in your argument are exposed, resort to insults, eh Rich? - Rob Doorack 15:51:25 04/05/01 (1)

You've... - Rich 19:33:57 04/05/01 (0)

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