Thanks for the replies, guys. I have actually owned an SACD player for awhile now and would love it if studios were ramping up to release more material. One of my gripes about earlier releases, which were not hybrid, is that if the format does eventually die off and as a result, they stop making players for this format, then the discs won't play on any machine. With hybrids, the worst that can happen is that you'll have to settle for the CD layer instead of the Hi Rez layer, but at least the disc is still playable. At this point, there are some titles that I would like to have which are not hybrid and will absolutely not buy them unless they are steeply discounted (haven't seen that happen yet). I think it is too much to ask of consumers to purchase material which may not even be supported in the near future. Making it backward compatible is at least an acceptable safeguard so that folks don't have to try and predict the future whenever they want to make a purchase.

Q