Thread: EMI and Warner: SACD or DVD-A?

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Post by Borchgrevink September 23, 2003 (1 of 7)
What have these two companies settled for? My question comes now that EMI is planning to buy Warner, and what influence this has on the SACD/DVD-A battle.

Christian

Post by zeus September 23, 2003 (2 of 7)
Borchgrevink said:

What have these two companies settled for? My question comes now that EMI is planning to buy Warner, and what influence this has on the SACD/DVD-A battle.

EMI is doing both but no SACDs from EMI Classics as yet ... disappointing considering their back catalogue and current artists. Warner seems committed to DVD-A but some SACDs have leaked out. I wouldn't take any of this as final. If there's a market for their product on the format, the discs will appear eventually. There's a lot of politics in all this.

Post by Khorn September 23, 2003 (3 of 7)
Universal is duplicating in both formats so they must feel there is a viable market. I would think if the sales are there EMI would do the same along with all the others eventually.

Post by zeus September 23, 2003 (4 of 7)
Khorn said:

Universal is duplicating in both formats so they must feel there is a viable market.

Universal in Europe recently said they were going SACD only. Here's their new web site:

http://www.universal-sacd.de/

Some of these titles will be duplicated on DVD-A for the US market. This is apparently a US initiative.

Once the dust settles, I personally don't see many titles coming out in both formats. More likely, the format that makes most sense for the title itself will be used.

Post by Khorn September 23, 2003 (5 of 7)
zeus said:
More likely, the format that makes most sense for the title itself will be used.

I'm a bit befuddled by the above statement. In your opinion upon what criteria other than format alliances, would that determination be based?

Post by zeus September 23, 2003 (6 of 7)
Khorn said:

I'm a bit befuddled by the above statement. In your opinion upon what criteria other than format alliances, would that determination be based?

Currently SACD doesn't support video, graphics etc. If you want to include these, DVD-A (or more likely vanilla DVD) is your only choice. Warner have made it pretty clear that they see special features, easter eggs etc as helping them move discs. Which is why you don't see any DVD-A players without video. They're trying to emulate DVD's model. Frankly, I see "special features" as a waste (I rarely look at them on DVD) and I suspect a lot of music lovers do as well. But this isn't to deny that they're attractive to others. These features were always planned for SACD and there have been rumours of an upgrade to the format, so things could get interesting!

Post by Dinko September 24, 2003 (7 of 7)
zeus said:

(or more likely vanilla DVD)

Is that like Vanilla Pepsi & Vanilla Coke? Because those are better than regular Pepsi & Coke. :)

(nevermind...)

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