"Keith G" wrote in message
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Cassettes only held a certain popularity due
the player being installed in 'upmarket' car audio systems for a long time

**** EVERY car sold had a cassette player at one time.

Much of CD's success was due to the plentiful supply of reasonably-priced
hardware,

What crap, the hardware was prohibitively expensive for most at the outset.
The prices fell BECAUSE of mass production that comes AFTER public
acceptance.
The disks here in Australia were *twice* the price of the equivalent vinyl
for MANY years, and still outsold vinyl before too long.

SACD and DVD-A could have had the same success if the MI hadn't been so
greedy with the price of new releases

Actually the prices were CHEAPER (in real terms) in comparison to the
original CD players and disks. However the market was extremely limited
since not many could see the need for a format primarily designed for bats.
(actually it was *totally* designed to make more money by selling new
hardware and the same software yet again. Fortunately they failed miserably)

MrT.