"Arny Krueger" writes:

You forgot the most important that they can reasonably expected to fail: The
new formats provide zero audible benefits.

True, especially for the mass market. The change from LP to CD was boosted
because a CD is more rugged, smaller than a vynil record (or a cassette)
and a CD player is really easy to use, compared to a record player.

There may be some legacy music
that is remastered to some audible advantage when it is retrofitted to the
new format, but that's another matter entirely. IME any piece of music can
be remastered as often as one desires to do so, and a different sound and
something that pleases some people more than others can be expected.

You can use a high resolution PCM format for new releases quite easily.
The problem is that even for CD few releases reach the limit of the
support.

If huge stores have a small collection- what's the
chance your local woolies/whsmith store has a dedicated
DVD-Audio/SACD rack?

Slim and none. Note: there used to be three stand-alone record stores within
walking distance of my house. Some were large, long-term businesses with an
excellent reputation. They're all gone.

Same happened here. Actually a new record shop opened here, but it also
sells PC, game consoles, games, books, cellphones and photo stuff.

Mike