“Sony has tried to introduce a successor format in Super Audio CD (also known as DVD-Audio), but it’s never went anywhere. The last big push for it was last year.
SACD and DVD-A were two competing formats, not the same thing.
SACD format is 1-bit wide with 2 million samples a second - DSD streaming. DVD-A is just a disc format on which you can put any of numerous bit rates and word sizes, such as 24/88.2, 24/96, or 24/188.
While SACD is still limping along, DVD-A sank like a stone.
I type corrected, then.
But SACD is pretty much dead in the water as well. Twice the cost of a regular CD and it won’t play in most players.
didn’t sony have to PAY a studio to adopt its blue ray format?
The means of physical production is now in the hands of the the consumer.
Even the “theater experience” now has to compete with the living room.