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Good arguments but....

mandating a 2CH mix and doing a good job of it are two different things. I agree that having 2CH mandated is a good idea - more so for the current situation then the long term. 2CH stereo was a limitation imposed on 3CH stereo due to the introduction of the LP (try a google search on W.B Snow for Bell Laboratories in 1933) so MCH is actually a good thing if done properly. Now if the mass market dictates MCH and the effort is spent making that the best mix, what is to stop them from taking short cuts in creating the 2CH mix? Unfortunately the market will drive how music is presented on both high-rez formats and if the majority of the market doesn't care about higher quality 2CH the effort to create a great 2CH mix will suffer. Small labels will remain in the game creating 'audiophile' recordings of both 2CH and MCH.
DVD-A or SACD: SACD by a slight margin. Long term tie.

Then the watermarking issue. From what I see http://www.mpg.org.uk/watermarkingreport.htm SACD *does* have a provision for watermarking too. It could be that they have been clever enough not to implement the third type of watermarking for the time being to allow the format to become entrenched. Why ruffle any feathers if you can ignore it for the time being? Protection of the material is likely to happen but this will be at the option of the label.
DVD-A or SACD: SACD by a slight margin. Long term tie.


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