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SACDs require SACD players. All or nearly all SACDs have a poorly mastered CD-compatible version burned onto their second layer, but you're literally better off just buying the proper CD album. The high priced proprietary Sony mixing systems reportedly do a shitty job downsampling the 24bit DVDA to 16bit CD, and a lot of studios were too ignorant to manually correct the issue.

DVDA requires a DVD player which is compatible with DVDA. To my knowledge, no DVD players under a hundred bucks are compatible with DVDA -- but admittedly I haven't looked around for a year or more. You'll have to look up your specific model to see if it's compatible.

Both formats were fucked over by: Expensive patents and licensing, leading to: Restrictive DRM, expensive new mastering hardware for studios to buy, very few units on the consumer market which were compatible with the formats (all of which were expensive), increased cost compared to CDs for something that few people were capable of appreciating.

Also, no portable discman systems since they required more expensive and energy-sucking motors and lasers. And of course the formats were introduced around the era of the iPod.

Oops.
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