XPost: rec.music.gdead, sci.electronics.design   
   From: TheWholePlanetIsMine@hereandnow.org   
      
   On Fri, 25 Feb 2011 10:35:25 -0500, "Arny Krueger"    
   wrote:   
      
   >"Kirk McElhearn"  wrote in   
   >message   
   >news:4d67bd30$0$32470$ba4acef3@reader.news.orange.fr   
   >> On 2011-02-25 13:52:06 +0100, "Arny Krueger"   
   >>  said:   
   >>>>> Are people stupid enough to fall for it as "better"?   
   >>>   
   >>>> They haven't been so far.   
   >>>   
   >>> Right - notice the smoldering ashes of DVD-A and SACD.   
   >>   
   >> That's not true. In classical music, SACDs are selling   
   >> fairly well.   
   >   
   >The last sales fibures I can find date back to 2008 when SACD  & DVD were   
   >still on local shelves. They're not on local shelves here any more.   
   >   
   >In 2008 DVD+SACD sales were $6.4 million which is  426,000 units presuming   
   >$15 each.   
   >   
   >Physical media sales which are overwhelmingly CDs were $8 Billion in 2008.   
   >No matter how you look at it, that's over 1,000 times more units putting   
   >SACD+DVD at less than 0.1% of sales of physical media.   
   >   
   >A 0.1% or less market share isn't even a good sized niche. 1% would be a   
   >niche.   
   >   
   >> Not as much as the manufacturers and patent holders would like, but   
   >> they're still holding on.   
   >   
   >In 2008 SACD+DVD sales were less than 25% of LP sales. LP's are holding on,   
   >but just barely.  25% of just barely is not "even a good sized niche".  That   
   >was 3 years ago and things have only gotten worse for the SACD and DVD-A.   
   >Lots worse.   
   >   
   >   
      
     One of the few good DVD-A releases was the Beatles' "Love" project.   
      
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