DVD-Audio/Video players will be lined up at CES like jets queued up at a fogged-in airport waiting for clearance to fly to Las Vegas for an early-January convention. The engines are whining, but no ...

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 ...

Blu-ray is still struggling to gain widespread support by consumers, but it's safe to say the format has a future. If things like Hulu continue to dominate, that future may be short-lived, but it's a ...

CEDIA EXPO 2006, DENVER, CO., Sept. 14, 2006— NAD, the highly regarded manufacturer of high-performance audio components, showcases the T585 Universal DVD during CEDIA this week in Denver. Both ...

Select audio suppliers have developed bass-management solutions to make sure that owners of multichannel subwoofer/satellite systems get all the bass they’re supposed to get when they play back ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

We were kind of hoping Pioneer would get a little ironic on us and throw some HDCP on their new HDMI-enabled DV-696AV, 490V, and 393, the highest end of which is capable of playing back DVD-R/W, DVD ...

If you've got money to burn, have been able to find more than five SACD or DVD audio discs that you might actually want to listen to, and don't mind buying equipment that will be rendered obsolete ...

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 ...

Original Publish Date: 12/23/01 - Much of the content in this article has been addressed via hardware, but we keep it live for archival purposes. Software selection however is still the big issue ...