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Sadly that's the way it looks to me too.

I may have to surrender my audiophile card because I don't find it sad at all. It's now been four months since I stopped using a disk player and transitioned to server based music for both music systems. One central library with instant access in either place. iPhone based remote control. I'm not going back...

Let's just look a Classical for a start. Amazon lists 302,872 items under Classical CDs; they list 4992 SACDs and a grand total of 132 (!!) classified as Blu-ray audio. There are a total of 337 Blu-rays classified Classical, most being video performance or opera. (Opera on Blu-ray is great, BTW.)

And that's the sweet spot!

As for me, I'm part of the 97% who don't buy music videos. I purchased one BR concert to try out the concept and have watched it maybe three times. I was never one who enjoyed "live" rock/pop concerts. My interest has always been in the sound, not the choreography, light show or pyrotechnics. Fini.

I'm not an opera fan either so that offers no allure for me. My wet dream is to be able to buy all my music via hi-rez downloads like HD Tracks.