Don't have a SACD player or are too cheap to pay for it? ..... That's a little bit of a sore spot around here, I wouldn't bring it up too often.
You could try reading the first half of the post before criticising me for being "too cheap" for not having an SACD player as it should be pretty obvious that I have. We could pretend that the illegal download trading of DTS CDs doesn't exist, but it does, and the active trade in surround recordings suggests that the interest in surround music is definitely out there.
For the record; I have had multichannel SACD since 2003 and have loads of SACDs. If they keep releasing them, i'll keep buying them. I don't download stuff that I can buy, and the quad-DTS CD recordings i've downloaded are ALL of albums i've already got on stereo CD, often in more than one version. The point i'm making is that far more people have surround systems with DTS decoders than have SACD but there isn't the legal software out there for them to buy. There are so many great quad recordings that really deserve to be dusted off and given a proper, legal, release on formats that allow as many people as possible to be able to play them, and DTS is a decent enough quality format IMHO. I love my DTS copy of "On Air" by Alan Parsons; it sounds wonderful.
The SACD-DTS conversions of albums i've already got on SACD seem decent enough quality even though they've been digital-analogue-digital. Why did I download them? Well, partly interest, and partly so i've got a surround version to play on my non SACD system.
The only releases i've seen recently in the UK that allow pretty much anyone with a surround system and either a DVD or SACD player to get at the surround soundtrack are the Genesis ones or Dualdiscs. I'm less convinced by the Dualdisc (bought Colleidoscope by Living Colour) as the CD layer won't play in all my players and I don't want the only surround mix to be in Dolby Digital, though that last issue's more a reflection of record company laziness than an inherent problem with the format. I have similar feelings about the MVI (Snakes and Arrows by Rush; Hi Res stereo mix great, Dolby Digital surround mix below par).
If DTS or someone like Mobile Fidelity could only take the lead and get some of these quad mixes out in a better format than Dolby Digital, even if they can only do limited runs, it would be a start.