On Mon, 2005-03-14 at 12:15, Fons Adriaensen wrote: > On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 11:25:31AM -0800, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote: > > > Yes, it is simply a temporary "backwards compatibility" workaround to > > change formats. > > > > The second layer is _not_ mandatory in the "standard". That is, at some > > point, when an acceptable proportion - determined by marketroids, > > nothing technical about this - of the players can play sacd natively, it > > will be eliminated and the disks will only be playable in a sacd player. > > Presto, big media companies are back in control of the whole production, > > pressing and copying chain. Don't expect to see a sacd writer in your pc > > any time soon :-) > > Or even an (unencrypted) digital output playback system. > > Recent rumours may indicate yet another direction this story could take. > Some 'observers' indicate they wouldn't be surprised at all if Sony was > to abandon SACD in favour of Blue Ray. And that will be PCM again, using > 'Dolby Digital Lossless' as the mandatory compression format. DDL is just > the new marketing name for MLP...
Hmmm, are there consumer level blue ray writers in the pipeline? I would be surprised if they selected a media that could be written "at home". -- Fernando