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  1. Ian Montgomerie

    Cheap SACD/DVD players in 2004

    Very cheap SACD/DVD players on the way in 2004. Good chance of them coming under 100 dollars. Heck, a 100 dollar universal player is not out of the question. From http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/030728/sfm003_1.html MILPITAS, Calif., July 28 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- LSI Logic Corporation...
  2. Ian Montgomerie

    Why SACD/DVDA in players ??

    Also the standard digital interface for receivers is S/PDIF. This is physically incapable of carrying the amount of data needed by the high definition audio formats.
  3. Ian Montgomerie

    Universal players and SACD-PCM conversion

    Technology for bass management in the DSD domain is new, expensive and difficult to work with, and limited to very basic functions (bass redirection, time alignment, and level gain sure, but virtually no other DSP effects whatsoever). For these reasons, most manufacturers of SACD decoders have...
  4. Ian Montgomerie

    Very provocative news folks, DVi (digital video interface) hits DVD in June!

    Firewire would deliver compressed video to the TV, and then the TV would have to decode it itself. So your picture quality, for example from scaling/deinterlacing, becomes totally dependent on the hardware in the TV rather than in the player. (And also support for types of compressed video... if...
  5. Ian Montgomerie

    Very provocative news folks, DVi (digital video interface) hits DVD in June!

    Don't expect DVI to do the same for the looks of a DVD as it does for a computer video card. Computer video cards push out much more data - higher resolution plus higher refresh rate. They push analog cables much more toward their limits.
  6. Ian Montgomerie

    Sony ES press release on all new digital ES receivers.

    They sell combo boxes with DVD player, receiver, and speakers for as little as 500 dollars. The receiver part is a minority of that cost.
  7. Ian Montgomerie

    Do most DVD players generate close captions nowadays?

    Having the player itself directly decode closed captioning is verrrry uncommon. A large number of players won't even output closed captioning for the TV to decode.
  8. Ian Montgomerie

    Secrets shootout is misleading

    Yeah I have about a billion peeves with most DVD player UIs. Like, why does my Toshiba have a "subtitle" button that cycles through every subtitle stream but not through "off"? Argh. And I hate MP3 players that don't have a nice display of folders with an option to see the full long file...
  9. Ian Montgomerie

    I want a SVS but sheesh!!

    The smaller PC-i subs start at 550 + shipping new, 500 + shipping if you can find the "B-stock" on their site. It's the upper end of your range, but it should fit.
  10. Ian Montgomerie

    Secrets shootout is misleading

    Yeah, a fellow I work with bought an RP62 (as an interlaced player) and took it back almost immediately. Cited dislike of the UI, noisy disk drive, and poor letterbox filter. Panasonic players tend to use a "2-tap" letterbox filter, which is what is used to display anamorphic DVDs on a...
  11. Ian Montgomerie

    Will digital CD audio differ from player to player?

    It also doesn't help that even when actual differences may exist, they're not the ones people claim to hear. For example, people claim that a better transport can produce "warmer, fuller sound". But bit errors manifest themselves as annoying clicks and pops, and jitter manifests itself as...
  12. Ian Montgomerie

    Will digital CD audio differ from player to player?

    If you did a blind test you'd quickly realize there was no discernable difference. The mind can be extremely deceptive about sound quality when it knows what it is listening to and when.
  13. Ian Montgomerie

    Will DVD-Audio Survive

    Well, the SPDIF interface it uses fundamentally can't support SACD, or DVD-A PCM datarates. On the flip side, however, SPDIF is a pretty easy solution for non-high-rez audio. Probably considerably more expensive to throw on a 6-channel or 8-channel I2S interface or some such thing, to grab from...
  14. Ian Montgomerie

    Will DVD-Audio Survive

    It's a nontrivial effort even to connect a standard DVD processor into an offboard 1394 chip (not to mention the cost of this external chip itself).
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