DualDisc: the end of SACD and DVD-A?

[kexodusc]

Wooch, are you sure about Dual Disc? My Nine Inch Nails Dual Disc has both a hi-rez MLP multi-channel track as well as Dolby Digital, and a hi-rez 2-channel track on the DVD side...check out my review in Rave Recs...

I think maybe the early DualDiscs will cheap out, but a lot of musicians are audiophiles too, I like the potential...
And I'm still of the opinion that this so-called format war doesn't have to be a war at all. We're in a new age of compatibility with absolutely everything else electronic...I see no reason why DVD-A/SACD couldn't work simultaneously. One thing I've learned since getting my new players is that the so-called demise of these formats has been vastly overstated...if you look at some old releases on SACD and DVD-A, most predicted 5-6 years for early market penetration...Dual Disc makes it even easier for more artists to get into this hi-rez/multi-channel stuff. Sales are increasing and slowly but steadily more artists are trying it out.

What I feel it will take is a solid recording by a creative artist with multi-channel music in mind from the start...not simply an "expansion" from stereo to 5.1, but an album designed from concept to be a 5.1 experience, one that just doesn't sound the same in stereo...then others will try it out too and the world will rejoice.

I just wish the studios would force these discs on the market - now that both formats have backwards compatibility, why not release everything in hybrid format? Surely the economies of scale that would be recognized could lower costs, and the value-added would make up the difference. Some people aren't going to learn about these until they read the liner notes and say "hey, I've got a DVD player" or "what the hell is SACD?"

Incidentally, Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails is also releasing the new NIN album in May, "With Teeth", (featuring Dave Grohl of all people on drums - that guys in 45 bands now) in may on Dual Disc with the hi-rez multi-channel and enhanced stereo tracks...sounds good to me...