My wife was watching Regis and Kelly on Tivo tonight and they unveiled some of the cars at the New York auto show. The guy doing the presentation specifically mentioned DVD-Audio on both the new Caddy STS and the 2006 Infiniti M45 they showed. He also mentioned 14 speakers in the CTS and 18 in the Infiniti. My point is the more cars that have it, the more buyers there will be for this medium and the more DVD-A discs will be out there. Any thoughts?

 

Agreed - and hopeful!

 

Indeed

The more the merrier.

 

finally, I just dont know what took so long, DVD audio has been out for quite a few years - hopefully this will step up the # of available disks.

 

I'm hopeful, but hardly confident.

I went to Best Buy yesterday evening, and was sorely disappointed in the selection. I don't know if it's because demand is picking up, or they're reducing their inventory, but it was sure slim pickings.

 

Best Buy seems to be slowing reducing their DVD-A inventory. It is about half what is was 6 months ago in the 3 near me. Their SACD selection seems to be steady, but still weak.

 

Try Circuit City.

Their's is small also, but they seem to be slightly increasing their selection compared with BB which is cutting their's.

 

The new RL has DVD-A also, but instead of Panasonic making it, it is a Bose system

 

Music World in Toronto seems to be stocking more DVD-A but the selection is still pretty slim.

 

can you play SACD in the TL and if so is it worth it?

 

No SACD playback.

 

What I don't get is......with MP3 as probably the most popular new format, why the hell does the Tl player play DVD-A but NOT mp3?? Dumb!

 

I think you're right re. the popularity of MP3. Acura should have made it possible to plug in an auxilliary, which would allow MP3.

What is really interesting to me, though, is that Acura sells a CD/Mp3 player for the TSX. Clearly, Acura targeted the high-sound quality of the DVD-A toward the TL buyer, with the notion that the TL buyer would be less young & hip and less likely to use Mp3s (than the TSX buyer). (I wonder if there was market research on the question; seems likely.)