Steven, first off if you read this,love your music and your surround work is amazing.
I just recently bought a Acura car with ELS(Elliot Scheiner designed speaker setup) in it and listening to Dvda's in the car has brought another appreciation level to music listening for me. In North America most people drive to work in a car so music listening in car's is definitely a great way to have a captive listener. Most people commute for an hour each way so it's perfect for listening to quality music, one can listen to a Dvda each way to and from work.
There are 1000's of these car's sold every year and more and more surround listeners are being brought in but most of them prob. do not know of all the amazing surround music thats out there like yours but I think they will find out eventially so the more Dvda music that is out there the more sales can be expected.
One new surround listener from USA because of the car experience has even put his money behind Dvda and Richard Labonte started his own company(www.musicvalet.com) with one title so far and he says he wants to bring out more titles.
This is where I think your(or your management team) strategy of going Bluray and not doing Dvda's is in my humble opinion flawed as you are missing out on so many more sales as in the case of Acura's they only play a Dvda(DVD) or a DTS layer(CD only) so bluray's are useless for taking in the car as well as DTS(from DVDV) also do not play in the car.
I think going back to CD\DVDA releases the way you used to would bring in more sales over time than from doing a Bluray. Ideally if you could do both like Rush,YES,XTC did with some of their surround releases as they gave a option for a cd\bluray or a cd\dvda or the ultimate for surround fans would be a DVDA/Bluray combo.
I would rebuy all your latest only Bluray releases if they came out as Dvda's and I am sure there are many,many more people in same boat(car) as me.
From a home audio/video stand point the brand (OPPO) is very popular with audio/video purists as these bluray players come loaded to do everything and play sacd and dvda's, there are more and more people getting these home units so that creates a bigger audience as well. I have 3 of these players myself after finding out all that they can do.
I think you even said that Blurays cost more to make than Dvda's and bottom line is we are music lovers, the video portion of a bluray although nice to have, I always turn the screen off as I just close my eyes and get immersed in the music, I think most music lovers do not care or bother with video/screen stuff.
Hope you would take this into consideration or pass on to your management.
peter
I just recently bought a Acura car with ELS(Elliot Scheiner designed speaker setup) in it and listening to Dvda's in the car has brought another appreciation level to music listening for me. In North America most people drive to work in a car so music listening in car's is definitely a great way to have a captive listener. Most people commute for an hour each way so it's perfect for listening to quality music, one can listen to a Dvda each way to and from work.
There are 1000's of these car's sold every year and more and more surround listeners are being brought in but most of them prob. do not know of all the amazing surround music thats out there like yours but I think they will find out eventially so the more Dvda music that is out there the more sales can be expected.
One new surround listener from USA because of the car experience has even put his money behind Dvda and Richard Labonte started his own company(www.musicvalet.com) with one title so far and he says he wants to bring out more titles.
This is where I think your(or your management team) strategy of going Bluray and not doing Dvda's is in my humble opinion flawed as you are missing out on so many more sales as in the case of Acura's they only play a Dvda(DVD) or a DTS layer(CD only) so bluray's are useless for taking in the car as well as DTS(from DVDV) also do not play in the car.
I think going back to CD\DVDA releases the way you used to would bring in more sales over time than from doing a Bluray. Ideally if you could do both like Rush,YES,XTC did with some of their surround releases as they gave a option for a cd\bluray or a cd\dvda or the ultimate for surround fans would be a DVDA/Bluray combo.
I would rebuy all your latest only Bluray releases if they came out as Dvda's and I am sure there are many,many more people in same boat(car) as me.
From a home audio/video stand point the brand (OPPO) is very popular with audio/video purists as these bluray players come loaded to do everything and play sacd and dvda's, there are more and more people getting these home units so that creates a bigger audience as well. I have 3 of these players myself after finding out all that they can do.
I think you even said that Blurays cost more to make than Dvda's and bottom line is we are music lovers, the video portion of a bluray although nice to have, I always turn the screen off as I just close my eyes and get immersed in the music, I think most music lovers do not care or bother with video/screen stuff.
Hope you would take this into consideration or pass on to your management.
peter