This is my first post and it may be long but somebody, one of the philosephers or wisemen may speak some wisdom. A little history before the point..................
5years old got a Sony real-real, little tiny thing never heard of Sony until that time. In the early 60's you didn't buy Japanese stuff cause it was junk. My how times have changed!
9 years old first Emerson combination turntable, 8-track/cassette and AM/FM Stereo and it had 2 speakers each with 4" drivers and the fake tweeter horns. I would sit in my bean bag chair with a speaker next to each ear!
16years old, had a job and bought a real stereo! Radio shack Quad reciever, turntable and 4ea Optimus speakers. Bought Jimi Hendrix "are you experieced" quad album and before a could buy another album the technology was dead!
18years old bought a 4 track Teac real-real for live recording and new reciever and speakers causer the Radio Shack Quad system was junk
20years old, bought CD player! First person to buy one in Houston Area. Nice $600 yamaha, no remote, no programming just skip/repeat/stop and play.
First CD, Dark Side of the Moon. Had to get new speakers.
23 years old. Had to buy a Sony Betamax!
24 years old. Had to buy Stereo Super Betamax!
25 years old. Got Betmax camcorder
26 years old. Had to buy VHS cause Sony lost the formatt battle!
28 years old. Had to buy S-VHS cause the quality of regular VHS sucked!
28 years old. got S-VHS Camcorder
29 years old. Bought Pioneer Laser Disc player!
30 years old. Bought DAT player while in Japan on business.
31 years old. Bought new Pioneer laser disc player with AC-3 output(coax). Bought new reciever and new speakers for home theater.
36years old. Bought DVD Player
38 years old. Bought DV Camcorder
40 years old. Bought new Big Screen TV all new 6.1 surround system and of course new reciever.
41 years old. Bought Pioneer DV45A, Plays SACD/DVD-A! New THX2 reciever.
Now these formats are dead! Now we have a new HDCD? I need a new player for something not as good as the old DVD-A or SACD? I'm used to 3-4 years before they screw us. Why HDCD? I need Van HAlen on SACD or DVD-A not this new format thats not as good. This is only half the stuff I have listed that I have bought that is obsolete. If the record companys think I'm going for HDCD The can kiss my *ss and I'll start pirating off the internet. I'm a person they should love, not try to hurt by a constant changing of formats that don't make sense. The CD should be gone as we know it but the record companys don't want anything better because they are afraid somebody will steal it. They need to check with China about that not the American consumer who spends lots of money on software and hardware. DTS is one of the only companys that is trying to advance the state of the art in music and movie sound reproduction, not SDS or Dolby! my only point is that when you spend good money on a better format that they should support it for 5-10yrs. not 2-3yrs with DVD-A and SACD and only do limited titles. I may have to go buy some records and a $5000 turntable soon.