And then let's add in the stupidity of the record label's CEOs and managers. Let's take, for instance, two albums currently available: Sting
Sacred Love and Natalie Cole
Just Ask a Woman Who Knows. Both are:
Available in CD format (only), retail in many stores, $16.99
Available in SACD, multi-layer, with built in CD player compatibility, retail in many stores, $16.99
OK,
why?
Why, you morons? Why are you manufacturing, marketing and distributing 2 versions of the same music, when you "claim" a desire to build interest and demand in the high-resolution formats? Why don't you have
*1* version, SACD multi-layer, for as many new releases as possible? And then create bonus goods when played via SACD, like bonus tracks?
YOU IDIOTS!! You can't see the forest from the trees. By making
all new releases SACD with bonus tracks bootlegging will be decreased because nobody can currently bootleg SACD, and fans will want the bonus material, only available on that format's layer. By making all new releases a high-resolution multi-layer disc, as people acquire a larger library of hi-res (as the purchase of the new releases will include the hi res software on the CD which they desired already) mentally they will acquire a desire for a hi-res player to gain both the improved sound and the bonus materials of software
which they will have already. They will therefore discover the new medium and will just get more involved with it in the future. Therefore, this pattern will drive increased player and future library music hi-res sales by initially increasing the starting critical mass needed to push a new technology into the marketplace.
It is a total WIN-WIN situation in the long run for both record labels and equipment manufacturers (which, with people like Sony, are one and the same).
But, as typically short sighted you MORONS are (I was in music sales for years, first hand knowledge) you are only interested in manufacturing and marketing a current product which costs you approximately 80 cents with notes and packaging (which you wholesale for $12.49 for a $16.99 retail disk), versus the undoubtly more expensive multi-layer SACD release (probably $4.00 or so, until you increase production and recoup pressing plant equipment investment) but will give you HUGE benefits in the future. So you make 2 competing products and then complain "How come SACD and DVD-A doesn't take off???"
IDIOTS. You were in the 90's - the music market practically collapsed (and why I had to leave) - and you are still IDIOTS. The marketing campaign is right in front of your eyes, but you've failed to do the right thing -
again.
Umm, sorry (again). Please don't let me stop the conversation.
