If you have an opinion about why music surround formats always flop, share it in the Comments section. So the question is: If people really do love surround sound so much, why are newly recorded 5.1 music-only releases so rare? Where are the Adele, Lady Gaga, Death Cab for Cutie, or, better yet, Radiohead 5.1 channel releases? My guess: since a lot of music is heard only over headphones and computer speakers, 5.1 doesn't fit the way we hear music now. 3 next comes the Beach Boys' "Pet Sounds" then at last there's a 2008 recording from Ringo Starr, "Ringo 5.1." Music-only Blu-ray titles appear every now and then, but Blu-ray doesn't seem to be going anywhere as a music format. 2 spot the Beatles' "Love," which I love, is No. 1 seller, Queen's "A Night at the Opera," which I don't think is an actual DVD-A, it's just a plain DVD. The DVD-A titles are just as ancient, starting with the No. Krall's SACD is the most recent recording on the list, and it's from 2004, while most of the titles date from the 1970s! So I'm left wondering, why aren't more new rock or jazz titles coming out in 5.1? At the time this post was written, "Dark Side" was followed by Eric Clapton's "Slowhand" then Elton John's self-titled album Norah Jones' "Come Away With Me" Billy Joel's "Piano Man" Diana Krall's "Girl in the Other Room" and so on. Punch up " SACD" on and what do you see? Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of the Moon" is the best-selling SACD, and it has one of the best-sounding music-surround mixes I've heard. I agree the band has championed music surround as a viable alternative to stereo, but, sadly, Porcupine Tree may be the only band out there keeping the faith. Whenever I bring up the "Whatever happened to music surround?" question somebody inevitably mentions Porcupine Tree. Format compatibility was an issue with surround formats. Regular price 99.99 Sale price 99.99 Sale. We also provide custom vegan favors, hands on cake workshops, online courses and cake supplies. Both formats are still limping along, and hardware manufacturers are still making new players. Love At First Bite specializes on Luxury Vegan Wedding Cakes, customized for each couple. True, music fans would have to buy new high-resolution players, and the discs were priced higher than CDs, but the record companies were offering music lovers the chance to hear sound coming out of all of their home theater speakers! How could the market possibly resist that? I know how: SACD and DVD-A releases trickled out so slowly that most music buyers were unaware of their existence. There were millions of households in the early 2000s with multichannel home theaters, so selling new music surround formats looked like a slam-dunk proposition. Of course the record labels knew selling a new format on the basis of sound quality was a risky business, so they tacked on 5.1 surround sound. Their futures looked bright, so why did they fail? The SACD and DVD-A formats debuted at the dawn of the century, promising vastly improved sound quality over the CD, and both formats flopped. Once Bitten is a totally '80s teen vampire flick where the bloodsuckers don’t sparkle, but the comedy most certainly does.Quadraphonic was the first music surround format, and the first to bite the dust. When a vampire Countess (Hutton) seeks virgin blood, she soon discovers that it’s not as easy to come by as it was in the good old days! When she crosses paths with the still-virginal Mark Kendall (Carrey in one of his earliest screen roles), it's a race against time to get to him before he gets it on. Jim Carrey is necking with a vampire in Once Bitten, a 1985 teen comedy also starring Lauren Hutton, Karen Kopins, and Cleavon Little (Blazing Saddles). Will the Count take a bite out of The Big Apple - or will its mean streets take a bite out of him? Susan Saint James, Richard Benjamin, Arte Johnson, Dick Shawn and The Jeffersons' Sherman Hemsley and Isabel Sanford also star in this outrageous romance about a guy who really loves the nightlife. When Count Dracula (Hamilton) is forced out of his castle to make room for an Olympic training facility, he relocates to New York City in search of discos, blood banks, and the fashion model who just might be the girl of his dreams. George Hamilton is possibly the tannest vampire in screen history in 1979's Love at First Bite. Sink your teeth into a pair of fangtastic vampire comedies, available for the first time on Blu-ray!