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DualDisc may actually be bad for DVD-A...

Since DVD-A is not surviving very well on its own merits, it now has to share a common carrier with regular CD and some video content. What's worse is now it appears that 2 channel DVD-A support has to be dropped in order to make this happen. DVD-A (Hi-Rez) will be pushed to the side by average consumers in favor of playing the Redbook layer in their cars or the Dolby Digital playback when watching the video content at home. Since DVD players are typically used in conjunction with TV sets, what's the purpose of just playing the DVD-A portion with no video? None. Of course the pro-DVD-A marketing camp will say that DVD-A is a success because of the units sold but we know that most (not all) consumer will probably never play the DVD-A portion either because they don't care about it or because their DVD player doesn't support it.

SACD has similar marketing challenges but not to the same extent. Since it is pretty much just a music format, SACD isn't trying to be all things to all people while incorporating compromises that DualDisc is forcing...


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