Sorry, and I may be wrong here, but you are comparing apples to oranges. As I understand it there was a requirement for DVD Audio and Meridian were the chosen company to facilitate that. If there was no Meridian it still would have happened in one way or another.

Nobody had a requirement for MQA and hence the problem is fundamentally different.

The former didn't get adopted so much as a need fulfilled. The latter has no requirement so people need convincing that they need it.

I doubt that people were running around lamenting the lack of MQA and wondering if only somebody offered such a thing. Whereas with DVD Audio people were saying we want HD audio but how can we do it or at least that is how it seems to me.

Cheers,

Tony.

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