It's no effort at all to be superior here.
Well it's certainly no effort being superior to you Jason, you talk the purest, most most distilled crap I've seen in years. It's a laugh a minute!
...except when you get insulting.
All one has to do is look at the heading of this thread to see the level of "discussion" engaged in here.
If you really believe that, then why did you bother posting in the first place? Again you move the goal-posts and blame us for responding badly when you might better question what your own contributions generated. This isn't happening in a vacuum buddy - you said something that got a bad response.
Let me repeat that.
You said something that got a bad response.
And then the personal attacks on me and the spouting of foul names, all because I call them as I see them and don't subscribe to the "big bad corporation is the root of all that's wrong with the world" mentality.
Oh for goodness sake, behave like an asshole and that is what you will be called. If you can't see the wood for the trees Jason it's time to move to the desert. I sincerely hope that when you get there, you can see the sand. If we can't hold the opinion that corporations are occasionally at fault for some things that go wrong with the world then what
can we talk about?
Let's get back to the issue at hand:
1) The normal purchaser of audio does not care about DVD-A or SACD except that they're confusing. CD is good enough for this normal purchaser.
Sure, CD is good enough for most people. That would be why CD sales are plummeting in favour of digital downloads. CDs are no longer marketed the way they were, whereas downloads are given the red carpet treatment so it's no accident that sales of downloads are up as a result and CD sales are down. Until you see this fundamental truth for what it is Jason, you're lost in a fantasy world of your own design.
2) Sony attempted to educate the vast public and couldn't get them to budge. Then they threw in the towel. Horror of horrors: Sony wanted to make a profit on SACD, but ended up losing money bigtime.
Until you can furnish this forum with anything vaguely resembling evidence, we will continue to question that assertion. Find the evidence and we have a discussion.
3) A whole lot of people here think they are smarter than Sony. Talk is cheap. Let's see you prove it. Come out with a product that the general public is not interested in, and force them to buy it by spending millions of dollars on advertising. Then get back to me. LOL!
Again you resort to fantasy. Absolutely nobody here has claimed to be smarter than Sony. What has been said is that for various reasons we do not agree with Sony's decisions. And until such time as we the humble hi-res and surround forums have as much corporate power as Sony then please, don't compare us with them, it's so stupid it hurts. I can't actually quite believe that you wrote that. It robs you of any credibility whatsoever.
1) Sony are the multinational corporation here.
2) We are not.
Spot the difference? No? Oh well.
Look, normally I ignore people as provocatively stupid as yourself but as long as you want to provoke me I'll respond with as good humour as I can muster but please, don't ask me to prove Sony wrong, I can't. What we are doing here is expressing our heartfelt opinion on Sony's perceived mistakes. If you don't agree, fine. If you wish to persuade any of us to change our minds, provide evidence. If you still want an argument then by all means name the date and place. Words don't cover all possibilities after all.
Colin