DVD Audio Questions (1 Viewer)

[John Kotches]

Luis:
The closest site with DVD-A titles is http://www.dvdaudiopreview.com but it isn't kept up to date :frowning:
A DVD disc can't be read on any CD player, the pit spacing and track spacing are too small. CD reads with a 780nanometer laser, DVD with a 650nanometer laser.
If you could extract the DTS track, and write that to a CD, you might be able to play it back on a CD, but this assumes it's the 1.5mb/sec encoding rate. Unfortunately most of the DVD-A titles are 768kb/sec -- which means you can't play it back on a CD player anyway :frowning:
Regards,

 

[KeithH]

Patrick, most if not all DVD-Audio players do not allow you to access DVD-Video information. However, if the DVD-Video portion is on a separate side from the DVD-Audio material, you should be able to play it on a DVD-Audio player. Anyway, if Homecoming has a DTS track, the DTS logo should appear on the back of the super jewel case.

 

[Luis A]

John,
Thanks for the info.
L

 

[Michael_T]

most if not all DVD-Audio players do not allow you to access DVD-Video information

Actually you can access the DVD-Video information with most DVD-Audio players. On the surface it may seem that way, but from experience with the DVD-A10 - all you have to do is go into the set-up menu and tell the player to act like a DVD-Video player and it will access the DVD-Video information (Dolby Digital and/or DTS track on the disc) instead of the DVD-Audio information.

And Technics found it prudent enough, that if you do make this setting (chaning the default from DVD-Audio to DVD-Video) it will reset itself automatically upon power-down. So the next time it powers up, it will default as a DVD-Audio player with a DVD-Audio disc. If you want to access the DD or DTS tracks, then merely go into the set-up menus and make the quick change as indicated above.

As you may know I only have experience with the DVD-A10 player, so you could be right that other DVD-Audio players may not allow you to access the DVD-Video information - but it would seem shortsighted on the part of any manufacturer to limit you as such.

 

[John Kotches]

Michael,

The Panasonic RP-91N should be able to do so.

Additionally it is certain that the:

Toshiba SD-9200

Onkyo DV-S939

Integra DPS9.1

Integra Research RDV-1

All can behave as DVD-V players.

I haven't touched the new set of Toshiba DVD-V/DVD-A players to see if they still have the Priority Content setting.

For some titles, depending on authoring, the DD and (optionally) DTS tracks can be selected by advancing to the group that contains the tracks.

Regards,