Nigel Kendall of the London Times explains why DVD-Audio hasn’t taken off:
DVD-Audio sounds fabulous, plays on equipment that many of us already own and the discs cost around the same as a standard DVD. So why aren t we all replacing our CD collections? Because we can t. DVD-Audios are expensive to produce, since master recordings must be specially remixed for multiple-speaker set-ups. This means that only recordings guaranteed to make money will be given the DVD-Audio treatment. Hence the proliferation of Fleetwood Mac albums and the like. Until more of us buy DVD-Audio discs, there s little incentive for record companies to produce them. Until they do produce more discs, there s little incentive for us to buy them. Catch-22.
We suspect that another part of the equation is that you can’t (easily, at least) rip a DVD-Audio into MP3s, something that many CD buyers take for granted these days.
Read [Via HomeTheater.About.com]
