The difference between HD and SD is tremendous to just about anyone given a good enough set. Not only that but I do agree people should switch to HD, however SD has had a very long transition time, so people had the opportunity to switch over slowly. Compare this to PC Audio... 1 product and dropped.
Explain to me again why one person's ears and wallet should dictate the audio market? Again, I still haven't met a single person that is willing to upgrade from DD to 7.1 analog unless they are techheads that upgrade for the sake of upgrading or SA-CD, DVD-Audio. It sounds better, sure, but nobody thinks it's compelling unless they are anal. A lot of these people are getting the new stuff because of older failed hardware and or they are late adopters to Home-Theatre. You're anal but most aren't, stop rushing us! Do a simple survey if you don't believe me. 5.1 -> 7.1 is not a jump that most will take.
If you checked the above posts, Intel has a few solutions with their HiDef audio codec architecture that specifically includes encoding. That and Terratac seems to be making a PCI-E solution. So you're wrong about market dictating. It was dropped, and now it's back. If it didn't come back, it would have created a huge whole in the market and holes in the market are begging to be filled, even in a Creative monopolized market.
Explain to me again why one person's ears and wallet should dictate the audio market? Again, I still haven't met a single person that is willing to upgrade from DD to 7.1 analog unless they are techheads that upgrade for the sake of upgrading or SA-CD, DVD-Audio. It sounds better, sure, but nobody thinks it's compelling unless they are anal. A lot of these people are getting the new stuff because of older failed hardware and or they are late adopters to Home-Theatre. You're anal but most aren't, stop rushing us! Do a simple survey if you don't believe me. 5.1 -> 7.1 is not a jump that most will take.
If you checked the above posts, Intel has a few solutions with their HiDef audio codec architecture that specifically includes encoding. That and Terratac seems to be making a PCI-E solution. So you're wrong about market dictating. It was dropped, and now it's back. If it didn't come back, it would have created a huge whole in the market and holes in the market are begging to be filled, even in a Creative monopolized market.