“Things seemed to be going well for SACD at the 112th AES Convention, held May 10-13 in Munich. The official news, announced at a Sony-Philips press conference, was that one million consumer SACD players have been sold so far. One large Dutch audio retailer even reported to me that they now sold more SACD players than CD players. The prognosis for SACD is total worldwide sales of 6 million players (in whatever form) in 2003 and 13 million in 2004. As for making the discs, Sony has three pressing plants (in Japan, the US, and Europe), but as yet no facility for making hybrid SACD/CD discs. Sonopress (Germany), which can press hybrids, plans to double its capacity by June, and will start a second production line in September. Now the unofficial news…”
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