SACD Explanation, Please...

So a particular disc I want is an SACD (The Police The Classics) which has De Do Do Do De Da Da Da 86, the only place it is at. I don't know much about SACD but can it play on a regular Blu-Ray, DVD player. If not, can only Hybrid's play it?

I know SACD died many years ago (and players are not for sale) so any advice on how to utilize this disc and rip it so I can add it to my collection. Much thanks!

SACD is still alive and well in certain markets.
Acoustic sounds still sells a lot of these.

SACDs were introduced by Sony at the end of the 90s I recall. I really wanted to adopt the format. The digital format is high resolution DSD, so it's a tad different from PCM that CDs use. 1 bit DSD would probably be close to 48 Khz 24 bit PCM if I were to make a comparison. A competitor to the format was DVD-Audio, which I think was Toshiba, but I'm just pissing in the wind guessing.

Now the showcase for SACD was multichannel audio of albums, but a two-channel stereo version of the content was included in DSD/SACD format. Then LunarLaugh mention the hybrid CD/SACDs that had a CD-like layer to that was encoded at the regular 44.1/16-bit PCM method for use in a CD player.

lbangs wrote: Yes, as I mentioned on the other thread, this song is not only solely accessible on the SACD level, I believe it is only on the 5.1 level. You need an SACD player set to the multichannel layer, not the SACD stereo layer, if I recall correctly... L. Bangs

Which, if I'm not mistaken, means it isn't going to be
the original mix anyway, but rather a 5.1 surround
sound remix.

Edited by Brian W.

The individual Police studio album SACDs are not hybrids, but
I’m pretty sure the Every Breath You Take compilation is.

Shalom, y’all!

L. Bangs