I have bought some dvd audio discs recently. Or should it be dvd-video?
Anyway,
Neil Young is opening his vaults and released a 60's concert on both standard cd and dvd-audio.
The setup tells you to set it up with PCM only, and if possible 24/96 for the best resolution.
Which is what I did. It sounded great, but in the title track, Sugar Mountain, it has several "hiccups", like
a skip or reading problems. I was using my workhorse dvd player, a Philips DVP 5992, and then I put the
disc in my Toshiba HD player, and it didn't have the same results, but in my Toshiba, you can't delineate
what level you want on a audio playback. So I don't know if it was playing at the higher resolution, or if in fact, that was causing the problem. It does skip on both the standard and higher resolution settings on the Philips.
I did a search on the net to see if anybody was also having trouble with playback with this disc, but found nothing.
I am tempted to visit a friend with the same Philips player, to see if it plays correctly, as that would narrow it down.
Just wondering if anybody else was having problems with higher resolution disc playback.
And what is the difference between dvd-video audio only discs and dvd-audio, the dead competitor to the dead SACD
formats?
P.S. I also bought that Who triple disc "Endless Wire" and the dvd-audio disc on that sounds good, but I don't understand why my TV has to be on for it to play. Yes, I understand about using your TV to see the tracks, and the extra information, a la dvd-audio. At least the Neil Young disc provides a photo that is constantly moving to not have the "burn in" issue, but there is nothing on the screen for the Who save for track and time.
I tried to turn off my TV, and that stopped the disc as well and turned off the dvd player. I was not using my
universal remote either. Weird Scenes Inside the Gold Mine, indeed.
Lyndon
