"...in recent months DVD-Audio has been basking on the glory..."

In recent months?  All of the releases you list that actually exist came out in 2005 and 2006 (and earlier).  The most recent of them, the Beatles "Love" album, is almost a year old!  Where are the big releases in 2007?  There haven't been any.  There hasn't been much activity at all.  DVD-Audio is dead.

Meanwhile, SACD keeps churning out releases, even though the pace is slow, and not all of those releases are obscure classical titles.  2007 has had major catalog releases from Genesis, and Depeche Mode, among others.  SACD isn't setting the world on fire, but it still has some life in it.

This article is a perfect example of a hack job.  The author should be ashamed of himself. 

DVD audio is dead only to the person commenting above. I have over 2000 discs of live performances and archives of the music of vinyl.

 Come on, enjoy something that works and is good and something you can do yourself. try to burn an SACD? Not going to happen.

 I use DVD in my car, boat, plane, home audio and office. Why not you?

 Are you too busy gloating to enjoy something that is stellar in quality and easy accessable?

 It is you that has the problem with DVD-A. DVD-A is a wonderful format and will continue long after SACD is dead due to having the support and equipment to freely use it as the consumer intends, not as the consumer is "forced to use." It is the poor attitudes and rotten grapes that have caused both formats to not enjoy the blossuming that they could have.

DVD-A is forever. it is here anyway until the hardware dies and the discs become unavailable.

Wake up.

The reallity is that SACD is the only High quality Audio format now adopted by the music industry.

All the Editors I use to buy discs from have switched (recently though) to SACD for all of their new releases (I'm listening mostly classical I confess)

W Kline, the personal backup of vinyl is not an argument. High quality can only be obtained from digitizing the master analogic source - not the vinyl - with professional equipment. If you want to listen music on the boat or on the plane keep on with mp3.

Frankly I'm amazed about both this article as the SA-CD one.

First of all I wonder if there are a lot of people who can appreciate the difference in soundquality between the 2 with their equipment. To me, both sound better then cd in stereo but personally I won't bother buying the SA-CD or DVD-A version if it is in stereo only and I already have the normal CD. 

When you look at the normal public, they're all listening to MP3's these days so we can safely assume they don't care at all about the higher quality of either SA-CD nor DVD-A compared to normal CD's. Most people in the normal public have cup sized surround speakers (if any at all) and they won't be enjoying surround music with those at all. They might listen to it, but enjoyment really is something else.

 The fact that there is even a discussion about which format is better or winning shows only that the story of Pyrrus has been forgotten.

Interesting how the market has moved on. Three months ago, I commented on the SACD feature, suggesting it had won a Pyrrhic victory. Today, that seems truer than ever. Compact Disc sales are flat, SACD sales flatter still and DVD-Audio sales flat-lined.

It seems the only hope for those after high-resolution audio lies in downloading. Not through iTunes, but through the likes of MusicGiants and Linn.

If there is a future for DVD-Audio, it's as a 'hard copy' for downloads and burned music files from record collectors archiving their LPs. 

Regardless of the absolute quality of SACD or DVD-A, I find playing DVD-A discs a major PIA.

Whoever signed off on the convoluted menu system that demands a video monitor connection for navigation, needs a good sized boot in the pants.

Hahahahahahahahah. What a joke this article was. I agree with the previous poster.

Who wants to have to turn the TV on to listen to music? Only someone who is desperate or ........

I have some DVD-A titles. I hate using them. Some sound great, some not so (just like SACD). The sonic difference is irrelevent for me. The format is d-e-a-d.

SACD is at least on life support so the story is far from ended .....

SACD is the ONLY serious hi definition sound format respected by Audiophiles. It is the the closest thing to Vinyl you will get if you stay with the small shiny disc. If you take a look around at player availability - there are quite a few SACD/CD players available - but NOT ONE DVD-A player in site.

SACD is far from dead, particularly  now that a number of discs are dual SACD/CD format. Long live SACD.