How we gonna play our discs in the next future?!

quadrifonico · 2024-12-11T16:14:28-0500

Well tonight I read that even LG stopped producing optical players... Sony will be next? What affordable universal players for SACD and blu-ray are still available?

MCDave · 2024-12-11T22:06:44-0500

Doesn't Panasonic still make them? I bought a new 900 a year or so ago. If you're willing to open your wallet a little I assume Reavon is still producing Oppo quality players.

quadrifonico · 2024-12-11T22:27:17-0500

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MCDave said:
Doesn't Panasonic still make them? I bought a new 900 a year or so ago. If you're willing to open your wallet a little I assume Reavon is still producing Oppo quality players.

As far as I know Panasonic don't play SACDs. Ever tried Reavon? Apart from being overpriced I been hearing lots of complaints (someone called them a bad copy of the Sony...)

quadrifonico · 2024-12-11T22:38:38-0500

quadrifonico said:
i want to hope in

As far as I know Panasonic don't play SACDs. Ever tried Reavon? Apart from being overpriced I been hearing lots of complaints (someone called them a bad copy of the Sony...)

But of course I hope people here will prove those rumors wrong; though for such prices I expect machines who play any format flawlessly. I noticed players tend to suffer from overheating at times

kfbkfb · 2024-12-12T00:13:26-0500

Could be like the compact cassette system, in the early 1990s, cassettes were the dominant prerecorded music format, now, there's only one good quality cassette deck for sale:
https://www.amazon.com/W-1200-Cassette-Recorder-Karaoke-Mic-Remote/dp/B07G9NBW1L/ref=sr_1_3

Maybe Sony will only make their UDP-X800 and one other Blu-ray player (hopefully w/MCH SACD capability), kinda like the early days of the laser videodisc, Pioneer made all the players, a low end player (no remote) and a higher end player.

Kirk Bayne

DoctorO · 2024-12-12T09:31:49-0500

kfbkfb said:
Could be like the compact cassette system, in the early 1990s, cassettes were the dominant prerecorded music format, now, there's only one good quality cassette deck for sale:
https://www.amazon.com/W-1200-Cassette-Recorder-Karaoke-Mic-Remote/dp/B07G9NBW1L/ref=sr_1_3

No offense intended...that deck is probably the best thing currently manufactured, but it's a stretch to call it good quality compared with those produced back in the day. The best option for a cassette fanatic now is to get something refurbished, or get a re-do of the one you have in your storage unit. There are folks out there specializing in that very thing, and it took me 15 months to get one completed.

I am frightened that this will be future for disc players as well, although I don't the intricacies of the electromechanical aspects of a good cassette deck carry the analogy over to disc players. Still, I am glad to have a couple of sturdy builds gathering dust...