Nyet to both formats!

Hugely inflated prices for discs.

And no means (for the average consumer / wallet) to digitally plug and play a device into his or her system. Six analogue cables! Give me a break!

I've got a DTS 5.1 DVD (the regular kind) music demo disc that sounds plenty good to my ears. I'd buy lots of releases in THAT format if they were available and priced like CDs - and I could use any one of the five DVD players that I already own to play them with - through their digital outputs.

I've spent some time listening to DVD-A and SACD in several well-equipped listening rooms, and I do not believe that the admitedly better specs (over plain-Jane CD and DVD) of the these formats translates into significantly better audible sound. At this stage I certainly don't think it's worth my while to buy yet another device, a mitten full of copper to hook it up, and overpriced "software" to play on it.

Regards.

Jeff Mackwood