In Reply to: "Sony & Universal to cease CD production in favor of Hybrid SACD?" posted by Stephen on May 26, 2002 at 20:19:52:
It is a plausible development, but I’m skeptical for a couple of practical reasons. First, a hybrid SACD costs considerably more to manufacture than a redbook CD, so I don’t see how it could happen unless Sony subsidized it and took heavy losses. Second, issuing all new releases as hybrid SACD has little meaning unless everything were either recorded or remastered in DSD, and I don’t think the recording industry is ready to do that, from a purely practical standpoint.
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Follow Ups
- Skeptical - rkw 05/27/0201:16:00 05/27/02 (4)
- Also..... capacity? - High-end Dreamer 06:07:17 05/27/02 (0)
- Re: Skeptical - Phil Carmalt 01:25:25 05/27/02 (2)
- few conventional CDs are originally recorded at- - hifitommy 10:39:49 05/27/02 (1)
- "some will revert to analog recording until they can afford to scale up to dsd" - hope so too! nt - Phil Carmalt 01:23:13 05/28/02 (0)