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Seven suggestions for Sony to reinvigorate SACD

 
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PostPosted: Sat Mar 22, 2008 10:53 pm    Post subject: Seven suggestions for Sony to reinvigorate SACD Reply with quote

Liberally borrowing from ideas discussed here in the past weeks, our new editorial proposes seven things Sony could do to make SACD more popular.

After reading, please do let us know what you think.
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 24, 2008 12:06 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I think the fifth point is crucial, and we should say 'make every new BD and SD DVD player SACD-compatible'. What's more, 'add DSD decoding to every A/V receiver'!

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PostPosted: Mon Mar 24, 2008 2:15 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I think point 3 has the best chance of happening. It would be relatively easy for Sony to enable DSD bitstreaming on the PS3. SACD unfortunately is a dead format in the U.S. for anything but classical and jazz releases due to licensing costs. Due to the way the music contracts are structured in the U.S. royalty costs have to be paid separately for each layer of a Hybrid SACD. It's the main reason why so many Pop SACD releases are only released in Europe or Japan now(their royalty structure is different for SACD).
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 24, 2008 10:30 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

All 7 points are actually good ideas (one of the best, for me, is the 2nd) but there's only one thing needed to make it more popular: strong marketing campaigns and ads. Very strong.

The vast majority of PS3 users (people technologically up-to-date) don't even know about the SACD capabilities of their consoles, and hardly even care. It's the same with Blu-ray. Now it's starting to get popular, thanks to the end of format war, and most important, TV and newspapers ads.

Using high-end technology is always an option, but there are too many people unaware of its existence. Perhaps they need a real chance to get to know about it all. I guess they would like it Smile
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 25, 2008 11:35 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

dieroboter wrote:
All 7 points are actually good ideas (one of the best, for me, is the 2nd)


Actually, points 2 and 7 are moot for most PS3 owners. That is because most PS3's are not SACD compatible. So putting PS3 compatible on SACD's would be a violation of the goods descriptions act, and bundling an SACD is no longer an option in the UK as the PS3 is on sale here is not SACD capable. Of course if that is remedied, then it migh tbe worth it.
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PostPosted: Fri Mar 28, 2008 10:09 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Added: a point about how nice it will be to have a PS3 that supports SACD with 65nm RSX as well as Cell because the power consumption will be lower and so will be the fan noise.
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PostPosted: Mon May 19, 2008 8:35 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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5... release an 'AV component type' BD player with the BD/DVD/SACD/CD drive from PS3 plus whatever other electronics are necessary for SACD playback. The ES series model (BDP-S2000 ES) really ought to have had this.


I think the decision to call this model 'ES' is just an arbitrary choice by some marketing manager at Sony USA. It doesn't look like a proper ES component at all (its housing is just the regular BD player's with perhaps some slightly different finishing) and there has been no ES model BD player in Europe or Japan, where the ES series has been carried for years.

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3. Enable DSD output on PS3


... and Dolby Digital Plus, Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD Master Audio too, please!
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