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Same problem with The Who's Tommy Deluxe DVD-A. No audio in Surround or stereo. And I have just had the player swapped over for one with the alleged firmware update. Pioneer are really extracting the urine on this one. Here in the UK you have to speak to a service engneer, and you pay...

As an ex live engineer myself (retired due to injury), I cannot even begin to imagine why on earth I would ever want to use a perceptual (ie lossy) compression algo at a show! Technically it would be easy to do, but WHY? If I needed more punch in the low end, I used to have a feed into the...

Private it is - a bit OT. I have given some basics, but can go deeper if necessary.

Greg - The quality of any DD/DTS mixes that nay be part of a universal DVD-A are as good as the engineer that mixed them! The reason it bothers me to hear DTS/DD referred to as DVD-A is purely an issue of awareness. I author DVD for a living, and my biggest problem with DVD-A is that so many...

GregBE... Dolby Digital and DTS are nothing to do with DVD-Audio. Period. They are audio formats for DVD-Video, and DTS is an optional format, not compulsory. Not all players support it, and the DVD spec does not require them to. DVD-Audio is either uncompressed PCM files, from 16/44.1...

Bass management is generally not used in DVD-Audio, but only in DVD-Video. How your system responds can be down to the setup in the player itself. On the Pioneer DV565, you set up for the speakers you have, with separate options for L/R, Centre & Surrounds. The systems with satellites & sub...

AFAIK, the boxed set of "complete" studio recordings has everything. I hope so, as I just spent 2 days putting the whole caboodle, and the BBC sessions double CD, onto 2 DVD-A discs.

Fair point sir! I must admit to having had 2nd thoughts since my post as well. Just doing a mix yesterday, and using all 5 mains for the mix just didn't sit right, and it pulled together a lot better once I used the Ls/Rs for ambience - against what I previously thought, and it worked! So I...

Where the "sweet spot" is depends entirely on the mix. Personally I use all 5 channels for full band stuff, not just ambience in the surrounds. I like to put the listener onstage with the band. Every musician will know where I am coming from here. In rehearsal, you generally set up in a sort...

I would not have an issue with transferring stuff from one DVD to another any more than I do with putting Vinyl onto CD. To my mind, I've already paid for this and as long as the backup is for my use only, what is the problem? especially given the rapidity that catalogue material is deleted so...

It certainly is. For DVD-A you can use Minnetonka audio's discWelder Steel or Chrome. Steel is around $500, Chrome is around $2500. Bad news on DTS, as the encoder is $2000. If you wish to get serious amounts of music on a single disc, you need Chrome and MLP encoding - another $2500 i'm...

The option to go straight to a menu or play audio immediately is an authoring decision, no more or less. I can set the flag to do either in my authoring app, and it's normally set to play immediately unless I am asked to do different. I also see a point made about the "multichannel requirement"...