Guys we have to face the facts that people are not buying discs anymore. Yes, WE do but we are a handful and you can not expect to stay in business when only a handful of people are purchasing your product.
If your market is dwindling then adding the additional cost of a product enhancement to the end unit is not financially feasible unless it results in more people buying the product. The bottom line for any business is to turn a profit and if that profit is not turned then there can be no future product.
So for people to come here and jump all over AF because a title is coming out without a surround track is really selfish. Sure, we all want the disc and looked forward to the 4.0 sound on a clean clear SACD but that is not happening in this case. I have been told that this is NOT the end of the multichannel line from AF, but seriously, the future of all specialty disc companies is not very bright. Once we old farts die off, people will talk about "In the old days they got music on a record or disc. Too funny"
If AF did not get us the titles we really wanted, and if they didn't get them perfect (Sly, etc), well, that's life. They tried. We praised them, and the biggest obstacle off all turned out to be timing. If they tried this in 2000 it probably would have met with a greater success. In 2015/2016 it's a jungle out there for big record companies let alone a small specialty label.
Let's keep the praise up for Marshall and AF and see what they get out there over the remainder of the year and keep the trashing and frustration to ourselves. We can't always get what we want.
If your market is dwindling then adding the additional cost of a product enhancement to the end unit is not financially feasible unless it results in more people buying the product. The bottom line for any business is to turn a profit and if that profit is not turned then there can be no future product.
So for people to come here and jump all over AF because a title is coming out without a surround track is really selfish. Sure, we all want the disc and looked forward to the 4.0 sound on a clean clear SACD but that is not happening in this case. I have been told that this is NOT the end of the multichannel line from AF, but seriously, the future of all specialty disc companies is not very bright. Once we old farts die off, people will talk about "In the old days they got music on a record or disc. Too funny"
If AF did not get us the titles we really wanted, and if they didn't get them perfect (Sly, etc), well, that's life. They tried. We praised them, and the biggest obstacle off all turned out to be timing. If they tried this in 2000 it probably would have met with a greater success. In 2015/2016 it's a jungle out there for big record companies let alone a small specialty label.
Let's keep the praise up for Marshall and AF and see what they get out there over the remainder of the year and keep the trashing and frustration to ourselves. We can't always get what we want.