Topic: How long for DVD audio?

[Karl]

So, how long until DVD audio becomes a commonplace?  Until you can go to the store and buy a car deck, or a home deck, or a boombox, and they play DVD's?  And what format will it be?  Until the current CD goes the way of the 8 track, cassette tape, and old-school vinyl records?

[dnsacks]

My take is that with respect to the portable market, probably never.  Home decks are now commonplace as are dvda/sacd titles.  However, portable music seems to be trending further and further toward portability via lossy compression (i.e. mp3s, etc.).  Thus, with current mass market technology for portable listening favoring fidelity that's significantly lower than that provided by ordinary cds, there seems to be no real incentive for the mass market manufacturers to create portable (car/boombox) dvd-a or sacd players. 

[nickgregory]

agreed, I think you will see popular music mass distributed in mp3 before you will DVD-A or SACD

[fsulloway]

FWIW- Kenwood makes an in dash DVDA player. I believe the price was around $550.

[George]

I don't see dvd-a or sacd ever taking off, in fact, on head-fi people are always brining up that both formats are on the verge of beng abandoned and i believe it.  Go to your local music shop...how many titles of each format do they carry?  Probably less than a hundred.  I think the cd format is going to stick around for a much longer time.  It hits supply and demand smack in the middle, plus, i've heard (and own) several cd's that are of stellar sound quality.  Your average joe who owns several hundred cds and doesn't care about 5.1 or frequency sweeps doesn't give a damn about some new format that's trying to replace his awesome $100 entry level cd player (probably a dvd player too). 

I think i'll stick to my 16/44 bliss with my Sennheiser electrostatic headphones   

Hell, i consider vinyl a better choice than sacd or dvd-a.

[1st set only]

I wouldnt mind seeing dvd players in cars that played MP3 discs. it would be better and cheaper than having your ipod/mp3 player in the car. 4.7 gigs of mp3 is a lot of music.

[George]

I wouldnt mind seeing dvd players in cars that played MP3 discs. it would be better and cheaper than having your ipod/mp3 player in the car. 4.7 gigs of mp3 is a lot of music.

Yeah, i would love to see a DVD mp3 discman come out, that would be killer...Sony, are you listening?

[BobW]

Sony's SACD manure/manuever will likely kill both formats.

Because DVD-A  is an available recording/trading format, I like it much better than SACD.

I hope that the industry continues to back DVD-A. 
The ownership of both artist rights and proprietary recording technology is a (foreign) monolpoly that should be made illegal.

I am currently listening to an onstage recording made at 24/96 (on a vintage PDA!) that is clearly more detailed, more "open",
and albeit slightly, better sounding than 16/44.  Leaps and bounds better than an MP3.
It is getting burned as a DVD-A next. 

Try to do that with SACD.
But, to answer the question.  As long as I have a DVD burner and player, DVD-A lives in my little world.
Buy a player(cheap), buy some DVD-As. 
The industry will support what the people want. Even Sony went from Betamax to VHS.

[macdaddy]

from what i understand, both formats are already being phased out...

[nickgregory]

from what i understand, both formats are already being phased out...

I have heard that for a couple of years...but have seen neither side officially moving to anything...

[macdaddy]

i have been told to not expect anymore commercial sacd titles ditto for dvd-a

we'll see if it holds true - the roll-out of new tech, and phase-out of the old tech always takes longer than the companies target (look at hdtv), but the writing is definitely on the wall.