In Reply to: Audio Fidelity posted by hifitommy on January 25, 2003 at 12:22:28:
...the licenses that Messrs Hoffman and Blomstein have been able to acquire thus far, for SACD release, have been cheap. As Steve H. has written on his site or in a PF interwiew, I forget which, the majors are not falling over themselves to license out the 'good stuff' to third parties for hi-rez disc release.If these guys *could* get licenses for blue-chip material, their pricing would probably go up a fair bit, since the upfront cost of those royalty guarantees would be far higher. (Both in terms of $-per-unit and also a much larger number of units guaranteed.)
This is not to say that JVC couldnt lower their XRCD pricing. But if they sell well.....
Mike
This post is made possible by the generous support of people like you and our sponsors:
Follow Ups
- that's partly because.... - High-end Dreamer 01/25/0313:06:33 01/25/03 (0)