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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Why DVD-Audio and SACD failed in the marketplace.<BR><BR>- Format war. Hybrid players capable of playing both formats did not show up until several years after the formats were launched. This forced ...

Recently I bought an Audiotrak Prodigy 7.1 soundcard for my HTPC. This is a soundcard based on the Via Envy24HT "Vinyl Audio" controller and a Wolfson WM8770 CODEC supporting 96/24 A/D converters with ...

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 ...

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 ...