| SACD is basically 4.7gig of storage, but the advantage of having a CD and SACD layer.
My guess is that it failed due to the cost of making one (for a producer/artist/studio).
If you come out with a product that forgets to include the people who actually MAKE THE RECORDS, how could it succeed. Sure Pink Floyd & Barbara Streisand can make SACD's, but how about the other 99.9998% of the artists?
If youre going to rag on a format, how about CD?
700mb of data .......... almost nobody even includes the Artist / Song Title / or Mixed data mode. What not even lyrics?.....
Even iTunes now does CD-Text....... CD's have been around since 1984 (22 years).
Lets face it, the music industry doesnt really keep up like the movie, TV, sports or video games (all going or are now HD). Nobody carries the flag for us, not even NARAS.... Where's the audio education to the consumer? The consumer does not care, because they don't even know they have a choice besides CD or MP3 or AAC.
I can go into Best Buy and see a HDTV side by side with a regular TV. Not to mention that they post the specs/quality difference right next to it. I'm not sure how much the public will care about HD audio, but when you pay the same price ($1 for a CD track or $1 for a AAC 128k) shouldn't we mention it to them that one is better than the other? I think its up to us, lets not wait for Steve Job's to bail us out.
Let's hope that Blu-Ray follows thru, but then again it's up to us audio pro's or it will die too. You are 100x more likely to want to publish a high resolution record..... IF YOU RECORDED ONE!
No Content = No Chance of a Future
These new advances and lower cost to create content just might help, but its easy to be skeptical..... but i want to help to be part of the future of audio, not a complacent & passive part of the past. It's really up to us audio pro's to guide the way. |