Re: SACD: Is it time for the funeral?
| No one is twisting your arm to respond to my posts. |
And no one twisted your arm to start a thread on a tired, flayed-to-the-marrow subject.
| This thread isn't about hardware - it's about software and the lack thereof in any reasonable capacity. There's plenty of hardware announcements still happening, but little software to back it up - hence the title of this thread. And no where did I post I was abandoning SACD. I said it seemed to be a dead format. Doesn't mean I'm going to liquidate my collection. |
This is very tenuous ground, Brian. I could just as easily argue that this area of the Forum is and, if not, should be about MUSIC, not formats. Also, it's very problematic when broadly discussing SACD (you didn't delineate software from hardware when you chose the title of the thread) to then
in medias res attempt to delimit harware as not being part of the discussion. One could argue that the ongoing release of hardware, which you acknowledge, refutes the notion that the format is "dead": if you're not "liquidating your collection" AND new hardware is being released, then you've got new hardware choices on which to play said collection. Again, what then is the point in asking a rhetorical question that has been beaten to death in this Forum area?
That's the admittedly personal issue for me: just as I'm already tired of seeing FORMAT debate in the high definition area of the Forum, I'm tired of seeing FORMAT debate in the MUSIC area of the Forum. Every couple of months, someone starts a thread like this and the same issues are raised and argued over by usually the same people. This area of the Forum is littered with these threads. It's led to the defection of knowledgeable members like Lee Scoggins and Keith Hirsch to Steve Hoffman's site, where I think fewer people have the regressive notion that lack of "mainstream" release = format death. One such thread was started just earlier this week about "DVD-A?" by someone who obviously didn't bother to do a search before failing to resist that impulse to start a new thread about an old subject.
It would be different if you started a release-specific discussion (i.e., the Genesis SACDs), but you did not. Clearly your attitude about the format has not changed since the thread began, so what's the point of basically passive-aggressively asking people to preach to your own choir?
"Any reasonable capacity" of SACD releases is a judgment on your part. I think you ought to expect some parries and jousts if you come to an enthusiast forum to basically declare a format "dead" just because the latest albums by whatever mainstream rock outfits tickle your fancy aren't getting released on that format.
The format is NOT DEAD. Period.
I think it's time the Forum made the same restrictions in the Music area regarding high resolution audio as has been done in the high def area regarding Blu-ray and HD DVD: non-release-specific 'format competition,' or in this case "format death," discussion should be restricted to a limited number of threads.
(I keed, I keed.)
