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As I understand it (and I may well understand it incorrectly), there is only one SACD production line left, at a Sony plant in Japan. Somebody reported, maybe on this list, that Sony took out SACD manufacturing capability from Indiana a couple of years ago. Question, Eric -- do the Japanese like SACD multi-channel or 2-channel? One of my opinions about why SACD flopped is that Sony took their eye off a superior 2-channel product and then the multi-channel stuff was so inconsistent and then there are decades of proof that mass numbers of consumers won't do multi-channel. They should have left multi-channel to the DVD world and stuck with a superior 2-channel product, working with manufacturers to get player costs down quickly, like they did with CD's. I think the whole cause of higher-rez digital suffered because there wasn't a big enough market for SACD and DVD to have a format war, and hybrid SACD's weren't ready for 2 years. If they had come out with SACD as superior 2-channel and line-priced it with CD until the hybrid discs came out, I bet they'd have had better uptake in the marketplace, which would have meant SACD/CD players would have evolved faster and cheaper, which would have propelled the virtuous circle of greater uptake. -- Tom Fine ----- Original Message ----- From: "Eric Nagamine" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2012 4:42 AM Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Mercury 51-CD box set now officially set for USA and Europe markets > Gray, Mike wrote: >> SACD is still alive in Japan - cf. Exton (really a vanity label, but >> still releasing every month) and EMI-Japan's 50 SACD's from their >> deep analog catalog. >> >> >> Mike Gray > > EMI Japan has another 50 SACD titles due out by March. Universal Japan is > issuing single layer SACDs and Esoteric/Teac is issuing some EMI and > Universal licensed materials on SACD. EMI also has bunch of Furtwangler & > Casals mono SACDs issued. > > ----------- > Aloha and Mahalo, > > Eric Nagamine >