DVD-Music...

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New DVD-Audio music releases and talk about the latest players.

I'll start out by admitting that frustration exposes immaturity in me faster than anything else I know of.
I made the decision to start purchasing some DVD-A titles in anticipation of receiving a transport capable of decoding them. I am very frustrated trying to figure out how to determine if a given DVD disc has a conventional stereo mix or not. Out of the 3 discs I have now purchased I don't know if one of them has pure stereo information. The 3 discs I have purchased are
Aaron Neville: Devotion
Aaron Neville: Believe
Ken Boothe: Crying Over You
All 3 of these are from Silverline Records and that appears (from searching the archives) to be at least part of the problem. On the packaging they list these as having the following special features
24 bit/96 kHz DVD-A and 24 bit/48 kHz Dolby Digital 5.1 options
Stunning 5.1 surround sound
Liner notes
Artist photos
Plays on ALL DVD players
My question is does this tell me ANYTHING useful? Do I have a stereo version? If not, would I be better off purchasing the Redbook version of these titles?
I find equipping a 2 channel system to be all the challenge I care to tackle considering my perfectionist tendencies. Searching the archives here at AA I can not believe what an absolutely confusing mess the DVD-A people have made of this format.
To provide some constructive criticism, I would like to suggest a new format to be called DVD-Music that would contain a stereo only mix. OK, perhaps this is a bit selfish. Maybe it could have multi-channel information as well. The DVD-A standard (just joking of course) could stay and be recycled to stand for DVD-Advanced and record companies could be allowed to do anything they want with these (this appears to be what they are currently doing anyway). The current DVD-A titles would become collectors items and sell on eBay for thousands 10 or 20 years down the road.
I am at least more than half serious about the issues I have mentioned, so please, don't make any accusations about trolling.
P.S. I really like my DVD-M idea, can I get some kind of trademark or copyright protection for the term and idea?

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Topic - DVD-Music... - Wellfed 09:20:02 05/03/03 (13)

Well, wellfred... - Eric LeRouge 12:40:07 05/03/03 (12)

Thanks Eric...Would I be better off with Redbook titles... - Wellfed 17:04:15 05/03/03 (1)

Yes. The downmixing is a horrible compromise. nt - Duilawyer 07:54:42 05/04/03 (0)

Do you know... - ducati 15:17:24 05/03/03 (8)

Re: Do you know... - Eric LeRouge 07:40:31 05/04/03 (5)

I have two DVD-V players that output 24/96 - ducati 10:07:07 05/04/03 (2)

Did you check this is the digital out? - Eric LeRouge 12:58:22 05/04/03 (1)

Yep :) - ducati 14:33:27 05/04/03 (0)

Re: Do you know... - NotMe 09:55:11 05/04/03 (1)

Thanks, good info... - ducati 10:08:19 05/04/03 (0)

Re: Do you know... - HighEndWire 16:03:40 05/03/03 (1)

Thanks!! - ducati 10:03:59 05/04/03 (0)

Re: Well, wellfred... - NotMe 13:32:30 05/03/03 (0)

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