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In Reply to: DVDA Compatibility on PC (WinDVD) posted by Vanguard on March 25, 2004 at 19:46:23:
One of the primary reasons I have mostly stayed away from DVD-A's is their inability to correctly label the content. I am surprised the industry is still getting away with this.One of my first ever DVD-A purchases was a disc from KD Lang, which omitted the stereo mix altogether (which I had assumed would be included on every DVD-A by default)!
I've really gotten sick of second-guessing what a disc does and does not contain and on which device it will and will not play...
-wolf
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Get real. All types of discs have all kinds of errors on their packaging, it happens all the time - this is not a problem limited to DVD-Audio, and has nothing to do with the format per se.
If that's the "primary reason" you have stayed away from DVD-A then you clearly don't have the mental fortitude to appreciate it anyway.
Some (like Silverline) go even as far as issuing matrixed multi-channel mixes and label them as discrete. Go figure...
-wolf
I have a similar opinion (to a lesser extent) with regards CDs these days. I have purchased over a dozen 'copy protected' CDs in the past few years which would not play on my PC or in my car. As such I now just purchase them on the (legal) Russian site allofmp3.com at 384kb quality. The fact that it only costs about $1.50 for an album is a bonus too :P
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