Robert A. Willis Jr.

1. The number of new SACD releases far exceeds that of DVD-A this year. Just visit www.highfidelityreview.com you will see that lately the list of SACD releases far exceed DVD-A's. I even buy SACD's and I don't have a player (yet).

2. Amazon.com's search facilities are absolutely horrible. I have purchased DVD's, CD's, print books and ebooks from the company and I get thoroughly peeved whenever I need to do an extended search. So part of your problems looking for Seal IV stems from the poor programming and/or database design of the search facilities.

3. I was on the Circuit City site and found that they have a good listing of DVD-A's and SACD's available.

Paul.S

Precisely my point, RAW: I wasn't having trouble finding the release (I obviously know how to do so). I was using it as an example of why not to rely too heavily on Amazon.com's DVD-A listings.

BTW David VP, if you like Sting, he has DVD-As out. I also recommend Shania Twain's Up!, which is on DVD-A.

-p

Jean D

www.dvdempire.com has a seperate listing for DVD-A's but they dont do SACD's

Xbox Live Gamertag: B1oodthirst

Livingroom: 55" Mits HD Rear projection, Denon AVR-2106, Fluance SX-HTB's, SVS PC 16-46, Xbox 360, Wii, Bass Shakers, Comcast Moto DVR, Toshiba A3 HD-DVD

Bedroom: 42" Panasonic TH-42PWD8UK, Denon AVR-2106, Comcast Moto DVR, SVS SBS-01 speakers, Samsung HD-950 DVD player.

"He's saying the fram is inter sex with the ramistan approximately at the patanosa." - Uncle Pauly "Walnuts" explaining what Anthony Jr. was babbling about at Uncle Bobby's funeral (series finale of Sopranos)

Lee Scoggins

One of the reasons it is popular is that it is backward compatible. Also, you can still benefit sonically from new masterings.

no fears alone at night she's sailing through the crowd
in her ears the phones are tight and the music's playing loud
~skateaway

Rachael B

The Flaming Lips were red hot! Me like-y!

Rachael, the big disc cat! I used to be looking for Hi-Vision Laserdiscs & D-Theater tapes, now I'm looking for HD-DVD's and Blu-rays.

I survived the AFI top 100 Film Challenge! I've seen them all.

favourite saying: hard feelings are for park benches... sit on that!

ElevSkyMovie

I've been trying find the dvd-a version of "In Absetia" on Amazon since it came out. I've finally realized that (I think) they have it listed as a dts cd. Click here and tell me what you think. The album cover pictured says dvd-audio on it, so I assume it is, even though they have it listed in the cd category.

John Kotches

Kyle,

That's the disc. At top left is the DVD Audio/Video logo.

Cheers,

Surround Music Enthusiast / Curmudgeon in Training
Opinions are my own, not representative of the publication I write for.

ElevSkyMovie

Listing it as a DTS cd makes it as clear as mud. Doing a search for dvd-audio discs yields nothing.

And we wonder why no one knows about SACD/dvd-audio.

AricB

precisely. you could check dts website, but not quite as cheap, I'm sure. I think I found the steve stevens dts at amazon the same way.

my CD Collection
my DVD collection

Rich Malloy

They're making enough new DVD-As to keep me happy. I'm not really sure if mainstreaming is such a good idea anyway. Here's what I'd like to see:

1. Focus on the niche and bring on the 24/192 stereo tracks! Definitely do multichannel whenever possible, but don't forget all those yummy stereo tapes just sitting in the vault, collecting dust and hoping for a hi-res release...

2. Bring on the catalogs! When they were remastering the Paul Simon catalog, did anyone say "hey, dontcha think this stuff would sound great in hi-res?!?" Duh...

3. Let the DVD-V only crowd have their DADs! Hi-res music playable without an MLP-capable DVD-A player!

I know I know... mainstream wants multichannel. Or do they? Do they really know or care? Many seem quite happy with toslink-in to their budget Pioneer receivers, 2-channel DSP-d to surround and punched-up with nasty EQ-boosts conveniently available at the touch of a button. And I keep reading how some seem to prefer DTS tracks ("more aggressive" is a common remark). I suspect these tracks simply sound better in the avg home theater 'cause it's so hard to bass-manage/time-align/level-calibrate a hi-res signal properly and thus their existing "calibrated" home theater system sounds better than what they hear from DVD-A. It's not easy selling someone the latest/greatest when the old format might sound better on their existing equipment (the real point being it's too damn hard for the avg consumer to properly calibrate an analog-based, hi-res, multichannel system: most folks can't even get two channel right).

Paul.S

AricB:

"In an abundance of caution," as the lawyers say, and to make sure we don't get confused about formats while talking about format confusion . . .

Kyle isn't referring to DTS CDs (and I don't think there was/is one for Porcupine Tree's In Absentia or Steve Stevens' Flamenco A Go-Go). He's referring to DVD-A titles released by DTS Entertainment, Inc.

I think you know this and meant to say "DVD-A" and not "dts" in your second sentence above, which would have been more accurate. A nit perhaps, but as soon as DTS started releasing DVD-As and re-released their CDs in the same packaging, it became very important to be very precise about what your referring to.

Thx for chiming in, Rich--good post. My Amazon Wish List is littered with DVD-As I want, so I too have a lot I wanna buy. But wow have there been a lot of missed opportunities to grow the format.

-p

AricB