{"id":2129,"date":"2010-07-22T12:19:51","date_gmt":"2010-07-22T02:19:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/?p=2129"},"modified":"2010-07-22T12:53:49","modified_gmt":"2010-07-22T02:53:49","slug":"sacd-comeback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/?p=2129","title":{"rendered":"SACD comeback?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m presently looking at Sony&#8217;s new Blu-ray 3D player, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sony.com.au\/product\/bdp-s470\" target=\"_blank\">BDP-S470<\/a>. Only $299!<\/p>\n<p>As I was exploring the player&#8217;s menu system, I came across something unexpected: a facility for handling Super Audio CD playback (you can choose between CD layer where available or the SACD layer, and between the stereo and multichannel DSD content). Perhaps I&#8217;ve overlooked it, but it has been some years since I&#8217;ve seen Sony including SACD support in a product of this kind, certainly since SACD playback was dropped from the PS3 back in 2007.<\/p>\n<p>It turns out that this facility also seems to be in the lower cost ($229) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sony.com.au\/product\/bdp-s370\" target=\"_blank\">Sony BDP-S370<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Is Sony rehabilitating this format?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update<\/strong> (12:43pm): Damn, that&#8217;s inconvenient. The player is set to Region A, so I can&#8217;t run some of my usual test discs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m presently looking at Sony&#8217;s new Blu-ray 3D player, the BDP-S470. Only $299! As I was exploring the player&#8217;s menu system, I came across something unexpected: a facility for handling Super Audio CD playback (you can choose between CD layer &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/?p=2129\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,3,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2129"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2129"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2132,"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2129\/revisions\/2132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}