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DVD-A play on regular DVD player?

post #1 of 9
5/15/05 at 11:31pm
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I was on ebay and made an impulse buy on a huge dvd-a collection of some of my favorite djs, namely tiesto, paul van dyk, and ferry corsten. I was somewhat assuming\hoping the dvd-a would play in my Dvd player. Was i wrong in this assumption?

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post #2 of 9
5/15/05 at 11:39pm
Yes they will play in a regular DVD player, but you will be listening to the compressed dolby digital track and not the high resolution mlp track (you need a dvd-a player for that).
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post #3 of 9
5/15/05 at 11:46pm
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Carapola. Are dvd-a players cheap? Or are they sacd players? am i way off?
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post #4 of 9
5/16/05 at 12:00am
They'll still sound decent, though only DVD-Video (audio track) quality. Also, some older ones might've been authored so they only play in DVD-A capable players. If you want full quality you'll need to purchase DVD-A capable player. SACD is different from DVD-Audio and not all SACD players play DVD-A discs (in fact, most high-end SACD players don't). You can get universal DVD-A/SACD/DVD-Video/CD players for about $200 at the low end of the spectrum.
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post #5 of 9
5/16/05 at 12:00am
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Originally Posted by Little J040
Carapola. Are dvd-a players cheap? Or are they sacd players? am i way off?
Do you want one that only plays dvd-a or one that plays both sacd and dvd-a?
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post #6 of 9
5/16/05 at 12:03am
Tooshiba SD-4960 and Samsung HD-both 841 (same player, different brand) both play DVD-A (and SACD) and are fairly cheap. You should be able to find them under $100 or so.

And no, DVD-A and SACD aren't same. They are a different format.
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post #7 of 9
5/16/05 at 4:19am
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Originally Posted by Salt Peanuts
Tooshiba SD-4960 and Samsung HD-both 841 (same player, different brand) both play DVD-A (and SACD) and are fairly cheap. You should be able to find them under $100 or so.

And no, DVD-A and SACD aren't same. They are a different format.
Also the Pioneer 588a, just out, plays all formats for about $120
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post #8 of 9
5/16/05 at 6:45pm
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Damn didnt think itd be that cheap! nice. thanks
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post #9 of 9
5/16/05 at 8:49pm
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Originally Posted by Salt Peanuts
Tooshiba SD-4960 and Samsung HD-both 841 (same player, different brand) both play DVD-A (and SACD) and are fairly cheap. You should be able to find them under $100 or so.

And no, DVD-A and SACD aren't same. They are a different format.
The Samsung and its clone, the Toshiba, don't do a DSD>>PCM conversion on SACD playback, whereas the Pioneer will do such a conversion.

http://www.hometheaterhifi.com/cgi-b...PioneerDV-588A

I'm not saying that such a conversion can't be transparent, but why go through such a conversion in the first place?
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