Dennis Nicholls

This seems like a good thread to resurrect.

Feline videophiles Susie and Dukie.

Danny Tse

From post #46, dated July 29th, 2003, by Lee



Wow!! Almost one year later, the number of titles available/announced on a worldwide basis almost doubled. Currently 2,244 titles listed at sa-cd.net.

DonaldB

Doing so presupposes you have something new to add. Care to share?

John Kotches

Donald:

He did have something new to share. In just under one year, more titles have been released on SA-CD than the entire DVD-A catalog.

In addition, the title count has basically doubled. It equates to about 20 titles/week.

Good news for hi-res fans in general, although definitely much better for those that favor SA-CD.

Cheers,

Surround Music Enthusiast / Curmudgeon in Training
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Lee Scoggins

This may be the most generous statement ever about Super Audio from John.

I do question resurrecting such a format war discussion when there are several open, ongoing threads on the same topic.

I will add that there are about 3-4 new SACD titles being released every day. That's certainly not bad for a niche format.

Also, I might ask each of us to read the new BusinessWeek, normally a cut-rate publication as business goes, which has an interesting article on the death of the mass market. It largely supports my contention that Joe Sixpack is a mythical creature. The point of this is that better marketers will increasingly target niches and look for new ways to reach them. I think this holds a lot of promise for reaching current and future fans of hirez audio.

Whether the music industry has enough intelligence to understand and implement these new ideas is another story.

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in her ears the phones are tight and the music's playing loud
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Will_B

A better measure would be "how many new titles per day are being picked up by retailers to stock?"

Those 3 or 4 new titles per day are being passed over for a reason.

Rachael B

Big 5 releases have slowed to a crawl. The lummbering, dull, slooth-like big 5 entities can't/won't adapt to hi-rez, SA-CD in this thread. If it wasn't for the baby labels, SA-CD would be going at about the same speed as DVD-A, S-L-O-W and S-L-O-W-E-R.

You have to wonder when Universal will follow suit and ease back on their not so fast SA-CD release schedule? The hi-rez transition is so exciting!

Rachael, the big disc cat! I used to be looking for Hi-Vision Laserdiscs & D-Theater tapes, now I'm looking for HD-DVD's and Blu-rays.

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Lee Scoggins

Universal will keep releasing titles as long as it is profitable. They have had some big selling titles as well.

I think a few big releases, maybe following some kind of agreement on the multiple royalty issue, will reignite things.

We need Sony and Others to do something very high profile in terms of advertising and big albums.

The Beatles would be a nice kick in the pants!

And we shall see if the Pink Floyd and Springsteen rumors are true...

no fears alone at night she's sailing through the crowd
in her ears the phones are tight and the music's playing loud
~skateaway

DonaldB

No, that was Danny's contribution. Dennis merely bumped the thread up without actually adding anything. It's not that big of a deal, since there's nothing wrong with revisiting the topic, but one would think the person doing so would add something.