hybrid SACDs will play in ANY CD player (Score 1)

The SACD watermark will not prevent you from playing the CD-compatible hybrid SACD in your computer or any other CD playing device. There is no watermarking signal imbedded in the audio data of an SACD. Hybrid SACDs are completely backward compatible with all CD players. Further, SACD contains single-bit sigma/delta data sampled at 2.8 mHz, aka Direct Stream Digital. It is NOT heavily dithered pcm. It is NOT 96/24 pcm. There will be SACD players with digi outputs at some point soon - just not yet. probably firewire. One more point - SACDs are not high-priced. Already you can find SACDs discounted to 13.99 USD in many places. Multichannel SACD/DVD players can be had for as little as $119 USD - I just bought one at Best Buy! Best Regards, Michael Bishop Telarc International Corp.