SACD

[Weltall]

I just got to hear the SACD version of Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of the Moon". And I have to say it sounded incredible (especially the beginning to "Money"). But I'm confused by the format itself: Why make a new format for surround sound music? SACDs cannot play on CD players, and most DVD players, you basically need yet another console to actually play the suckers. Why did they bother in the first place, when DVD-Audio can do everything SACD can do with the added advantage of it being compatible with hardware that is extremely common, inexpensive and already well-established?