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Originally posted by gpalmer
No, you can't get a digital SACD stream out of the 47Ai. |
Actually, I recently read in one of the British music magazines that Sony approved one of the standards -- firewire, I think, will double-check -- and that Pioneer was going to add that in as a post-sale mod (don't remember if it was free or not).
That said, even the current version had a
proprietary link that would pass the signal in the digital realm from their player to only their receiver, and yes, that was on DVD-A, SACD, as well as the usual CD and DVD-V formats (at least that's what I read). Quote:
Originally posted by elambo
SACD vs. DVD-A continues, and will for a while. As everyone knows, the winner may not be the best (remember VHS vs. Beta)... |
I know I'm repeating myself, but since this fallacy keeps getting repeated, I think the correction bears repeating as well. This is not a format war as has been the case previously (VHS vs. Beta, different quadraphonic systems). Never before has the
exact samephysical hardware been used to read the different media (SACD uses the same laser technology as DVD), it's only in the format. It's like FAT vs. NTFS formatting -- once you have the software updated, it's easy to go from one to the other. Sure, there are additional processing issues -- purists will want the DSD stream to stay DSD, but other than that...In the future,
all players will be universal (well, except for the "old school is the kool skool" seperatist die-hards), so the only issue will be, what label is the artist on?