[AdamZuf]

suchg thing exist?

 

[dd3mon]

No.

 

[AdamZuf]

damn.

 

[gpalmer]

I doubt you will ever see them since it would allow hackers to compromise the copy protection more easily.

 

[grinch]

i think the simple fact that nobody has bothered to crack the sacd protection yet is a big sign that sacd really isn't going anywhere.

i really do love how companies are starting to put firewire in these new sacd players. all's it's going to take is one budget player to have that option, and somebody's going to find a way to go from sacd player's firewire -> computer and download the sacd directly. then throw it into a dvd-r burner of some kind and boom, new sacd.

this is just my thinking anyway. the other option would be a hacked firmware for a dvd-rom drive so that the sacds can be read in them.

 

[AdamZuf]

good note, grinch.
if the protection will be cracked, will we be able to read SACD only from DVD drives?

here's a link to a nice article from Stereophile:
http://www.stereophile.com/showarchives.cgi?812

 

[Dusty Chalk]

Technically, it's the same hardware (as DVD drives), so it should be doable...but as gloco has pointed out, no-one in the freeware community has cared enough to write the software/drivers.

I should qualify this statement -- a lot of DVD drives are "smarter" than CD drives -- I.E. they do more, and therefore the instruction set is simpler (well, "at a higher level", anyway). So it may not be possible (if the instuctions aren't adequate to control the laser/lens down to the format level).

 

[williamgoody]

I'm kinda surprised no one has tried to, or succeeded in hacking a cheap SACD player to allow digital output for SACD's.