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Re: Will hi-res die? Killed off by MP3?

Well let's see here,

1) CD sales are dropping significantly.

2) Music firmware companies, musicians, and music equipment manufactures have a huge stake in assuring a future firmware music format that has nothing to do with downloading music from a computer.

3) Several SACD Hybrid disc manufacturing plants have opened up recently.

4) There are already greater than 1100 SACDs on the market (don't know how many DVD-As) and they just keep coming.

5) The price of hybrid SACDs is fast approaching the price of a 16 bit CD. People like getting extra features for the money they spend, even if it means making use of those extra featrues at a future time.

5) The 2004 Acura will feature DVD-A in at least one of its cars (it's the one I know about). There's every reason to believe that others will follow.

6) Musical ensembles and their representatives are working hard to get their music on hi-rez format (so people can hear their music as the music is meant to be heard) with, for instance, several symphony orchestras setting up their own SACD apparatus and starting to release their own SACDs, and independent firms buying apparatus to help smaller ensembles record their music in hi-rez.

7) More and more people are setting up surround systems in their homes and there's every evidence that future players (even in the low price ranges) will be 'universal' allowing DVD, SACD, and DVD-A to be played at home without purchasing extra equipment.

8) Even if the hi-rez factor doesn't catch the general public's interest right away, the multi-channel factor will (luckily for us, the the current MC music formats are hi-rez in nature).

9) I believe that soon most of the new releases will be on one of the two new formats (my guess is hybrid SACD will be the current chosen format over DVD-A because of it's portability (can also be played on any current CD player, walkman, car CD player, etc.).

In other words, I feel strongly that the answer to your question is NO.



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