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07-20-2003, 09:15 PM
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Coming in September, according to Philips....SACD II
Over at High Fidelity Review, there's an article about the introduction of SACD II, coming in September....
http://www.highfidelityreview.com/ne...umber=19363192
But at the same time, Audio Revolution is running an article regarding DVD-A's, in light of SACD II's pending introduction....
http://www.audiorevolution.com/news/0703/18.dvda.shtml
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07-20-2003, 10:23 PM
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The very thought of SACD II underwhelms me...
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07-20-2003, 10:42 PM
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The situation surrounding straightforward audio playback on legacy machines is also uncertain, will an SACD II disc with heightened encryption be readable by any of the current SACD players? This is the most important aspect for existing users, but if Sony/Philips are sensible the answer will be “yes”. However, we do know that full SACD II capabilities will become mandatory within all newly produced players by the year 2007, which will mean the slow demise of the SACD format as we know it today.
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07-20-2003, 11:31 PM
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Rumors so far, that's all.
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07-21-2003, 12:23 AM
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All this assuming this is true, of course:
So they're not changing anything about the sound, just adding video content and security stuff.
Re: video content, it seems Sony and Philipps are still making the mistake, IMO, of trying to "cross-over" to non-audiophiles. I still believe non-audiophiles don't care about the sound difference and that SACD is an audiophile format. Audiophiles don't care about video content.
Re: security- whenever they do this sort of thing, there are problems of compatibility. That is no good.
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07-21-2003, 12:55 AM
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I hope this is not Sony's attempt at selling its past SACD titles one more time, except this time it will be on hybrid SACD with video contents.
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07-21-2003, 04:39 AM
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It's funny how SACD has jumped over the fence the last couple of years.
At one point multichannel wasn't important, they left that for DVD-A. Sony then decides that multichannel can't be ignored.
Video wasn't important either, but somehow they're finding enough reasons to include it now.
It's becoming more and more clear that the creation of 2 Hi-rez formats was a mistake.
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07-21-2003, 06:16 AM
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"Improved copy-protection measures"? Huh? 
Backwards compatibility of SACD II discs with "SACD I" players has me concerned.
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07-21-2003, 08:40 AM
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This is very interesting news indeed.
I am sure that SACD II will be compatible or the audiophile community will revolt. There may be a slim chance that they would go to 5.6MB sampling as Meitner once suggested but I doubt it as that would require new hardware changes. I would be really surprised if compatibility was an issue. Think about it: it would essentially erase the value of current SACDs as well as the progress SACD has made so far.
I will agree with Marc in a sense, it sure would have been easier if one hirez format was backed by all the majors.
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07-21-2003, 09:26 AM
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Think about it: it would essentially erase the value of current SACDs as well as the progress SACD has made so far.
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Considering how small of the market share of SACD and how limited its consumer base is, they may be willing to take that hit.
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