It has been some time since I wrote the controversial, but much needed article titled, "DVD Audio & SACD The Royal Scam". I did not write this article to bash new technologies, nor to be a ...

When you look at the excitement that Dolby Digital and dts 5.1-channel soundtracks from DVDs can generate played over a good home theater system, it’s not surprising that Sony/Philips and the DVD ...

Ten years ago SACD and DVD-Audio were hailed as the next big things. Everyone thought multichannel music would soon replace stereo, but stereo's still here and 5.1 music is nearly extinct. Ex-movie ...

The DVD Audio and Super Audio CD formats continued to evolve at CES, where Philips demonstrated multichannel SACD and hardware suppliers revealed that Matsushita and Toshiba have proposed a new DVD ...

Pioneer Electronics has the solution to the high-end audio format war; just put them all in the same unit. The company has begun shipping the DV-563A, a universal DVD player that offers both DVD video ...

Multidisc DVD-Audio/Video changers and multichannel SACD players drew attention at the CEDIA Expo, where the selection of DVD-A/V changers and multichannel SACD players grew. Denon, JVC and Yamaha ...

As my new Blu Ray player will do both DVD-A and SACD (Oppo BDP-95), I am thinking of picking a few up and see how they compare to my cd's on my external d2a. I am curious if one format is the clear ...

I don't much care about the video portion of the DVD (I assume no one would bother to make a DVD Audio player that doesn't do DVD Video) since I use my PC + projector to watch movies anyway.<BR><BR>I ...

If you want to hear how good digital audio can sound check out Oppo's latest universal Blu-ray player, the BDP-83. Ex-movie theater projectionist Steve Guttenberg has also worked as a high-end audio ...

Blu-ray is still struggling to gain widespread support by consumers, but it's safe to say the format has a future. If things like Hulu continue to dominate, that future may be short-lived, but it's a ...

Original Publish Date: 12/23/01 - Much of the content in this article has been addressed via hardware, but we keep it live for archival purposes. Software selection however is still the big issue ...