Twl,
I agree that the industry wants to find a way to protect CDs but these are the same folk who made available to the public CD burners. Made them cheap enough to put in every PC made in the world. As for protection, DVD video was protected but now recordable DVD players are becoming standard equipment on PCs. Regardless of the format, someone will find a way to re-record it. After all, they make copies of those CDs for resale right? That means the copier already exists, it just isn’t cheap enough for the consumer to buy it…yet. I think you would be 100% right if all the electronics companies were owned by the software companies but thankfully, that has not happened…yet.
I don't think the manufacturers are so hot on the new format, if they were, we would see thousands of new CDs sporting the format.
Vinyl didn’t disappear because the bad men at the top made it disappear, it is because the average joe/jolean couldn’t see the value in analog and CD was sooo much more convenient and so much better than cassettes (the other option). Vinyl was already losing to cassettes and CDs were so much better than tape it was a no brainer choice. Just like DVD is superior to VHS, nobody is forcing DVD down anyone’s throat, the fact is, once someone sees DVD they never want to go back. The SACD story is not as compelling. Although everyone I know who is an audiophile says SACD is better than conventional 2 channel, the difference isn’t so clear to joe/jolean. We hear the difference because we are trained. If it was blow-you-away better, where no person could deny it, like DVD vs VHS, then we wouldn’t be having this conversation. So vinyl lost because it was a pain to maintain for the consumer, not because the executives decided to thrust it upon an innocent unassuming population.
Yes, the big guns try and drive things to a degree but they have to rely on the public to respond. They have hyped this thing for 3 years and the mainstream, the real money, isn’t buying it. Now, I haven’t even mentioned the extra costs involved with multiple channels. No, the road is too long and too rough. SACD/DVD-A is not going to make it. I will bet you a CD of my choice in my format vs one of your choice in your format, what do ya say?
I agree that the industry wants to find a way to protect CDs but these are the same folk who made available to the public CD burners. Made them cheap enough to put in every PC made in the world. As for protection, DVD video was protected but now recordable DVD players are becoming standard equipment on PCs. Regardless of the format, someone will find a way to re-record it. After all, they make copies of those CDs for resale right? That means the copier already exists, it just isn’t cheap enough for the consumer to buy it…yet. I think you would be 100% right if all the electronics companies were owned by the software companies but thankfully, that has not happened…yet.
I don't think the manufacturers are so hot on the new format, if they were, we would see thousands of new CDs sporting the format.
Vinyl didn’t disappear because the bad men at the top made it disappear, it is because the average joe/jolean couldn’t see the value in analog and CD was sooo much more convenient and so much better than cassettes (the other option). Vinyl was already losing to cassettes and CDs were so much better than tape it was a no brainer choice. Just like DVD is superior to VHS, nobody is forcing DVD down anyone’s throat, the fact is, once someone sees DVD they never want to go back. The SACD story is not as compelling. Although everyone I know who is an audiophile says SACD is better than conventional 2 channel, the difference isn’t so clear to joe/jolean. We hear the difference because we are trained. If it was blow-you-away better, where no person could deny it, like DVD vs VHS, then we wouldn’t be having this conversation. So vinyl lost because it was a pain to maintain for the consumer, not because the executives decided to thrust it upon an innocent unassuming population.
Yes, the big guns try and drive things to a degree but they have to rely on the public to respond. They have hyped this thing for 3 years and the mainstream, the real money, isn’t buying it. Now, I haven’t even mentioned the extra costs involved with multiple channels. No, the road is too long and too rough. SACD/DVD-A is not going to make it. I will bet you a CD of my choice in my format vs one of your choice in your format, what do ya say?