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I have a fleet of inexpensive universal players from Samsung and one from Pioneer to prepare for the impending abandonment of DVD-A and SACD. I want to be able to play these great discs for the rest of my life. The new Oppo universal player sounds like the best of the bunch, but I am already...

I was certain the royalties and manufacturing costs are significantly greater for hybrid SACD compared to CD and the overwhelming majority of purchasers only want the CD and won't pay the higher price necessary to make hybrid SACD a success. I believe the costs are at a minimum $1.50 per disc...

Rachel, I think it is really simple and I believe hybrid SACD requires a price point for profitability that won't work in the marketplace. I don't like single layer SACD, although I own about a dozen of them. I hope Blu-ray quickly improves and succeeds, but I don't know that will happen. Chris

Sony still has SACD players in their current product lineup to play the soon to be approximately 4,000 SACD titles so abandoning isn't the correct term. If SACD started selling by some miracle, then I am certain Sony would release more music. As pitiful as the sales are now, I don't expect many...

There are many hundreds of millions of commercial CD's in this country. Worldwide, surely over a billion. Not sure what you are asking. Chris

There must be over 3,500 SACD titles including hundreds by popular artists in addition to all of the classical, jazz, and country titles. I have 15 by Bob Dylan, 5 by Elton John, 3 by Eric Clapton, 2 by Marvin Gaye, 1 by 3 Doors Down, 1 by Ryan Adams, 4 by Peter Gabriel, 4 by The Rolling Stones...