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Originally posted by gonk:
SACD and DVD-Audio can both go digitally via HDMI, which solves the bass management headache and allows you to consolidate your investment in good analog performance in one place. DVD-Audio as a format is not quite dead, but it's frightfully close. A handful of independent labels offer DVD-A releases from time to time, but it's extremely rare. Basically, DVD-A is all but dead as far as new releases...
The HDMI option came too late to the game to save DVD-A and SACD, by insisting on copy protection the recording industry made it too difficult for the average joe and a headache because of bass management and multiple D/A A/D conversions for the rest of us.