There's the DVD audio, super audio, the dual-disc that includes a CD on one side and a DVD on the other side.
And, unlike earlier DVD audio units that lacked bass management capacity, the DVD-9000 has the know-how to send those sonic booms right to the subwoofer.
Pioneer will launch two planned products -- combined DVD Video and DVD Audio players -- as scheduled in late December and offer customers a free upgrade when the new system is finalized.
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Pioneer's DV-AX10 model also comes with the ability to play SuperAudio CD discs - a format developed by Sony and already commercialized that is battling with DVD Audio for the place as the successor to compact disks.
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The player supports several types of discs including DVD-Audio, DVD-RAM, DVD-R, CD-R and CD-RW. There's also an SD Memory card slot, so you can look at photos you may have saved from a digital camera.
Sinse this is a high-end audio player first and video player second, it allows those that want DVD-audio without the video part to preview and use the DVD navigation through its front touchpad.
That leaves two other precedents, one of which was the dual-format audio disc war fought between SACD and DVD-Audio.
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On the audio side, it touts 5.1-channel surround via analog outs for SACD, while DVD-Audio can take advantage of HDMI's single cable simplicity.
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" Stop Making Sense " (Palm ): Pure delight from David Byrne and Talking Heads, and a reminder that the audio on DVD can be as stunning as the visuals.
"Deluxe Digital Studios recently installed Dolby TrueHD with advanced 96k upsampling after we conducted a blind test, and everyone agreed the upsampled stream was better than the original, " said Roger Fiets, Technical Manager, DVD and Blu-ray Audio, Deluxe Digital Studios.
But some people want need that high-end audio sound that the initial HD DVD and Blu-ray players are simply not going to provide.
The Panel was nice and bright, even eclipsing our LED-backlit XPS M1330 on maximum settings -- though the screen looked washed out, viewed from off-angles -- and featured smooth action and no perceptible audio sync issues when playing a DVD-quality movie.
The IceTouch (YP-H1), featuring the world's first 2-inch, full color, transparent Active Matrix Organic Light Emitting Diode (AMOLED) touch-screen display, functions as a DVD-quality video player, studio quality audio player, an ultra-portable photo album, an FM radio and even a portable storage device.
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Audio-visual equipment (televisions and DVD players) were donated by the Uruguayan branch of an international company, Bayer, to support the programme implementation.
Aside from compression artifacts, the cable version has other problems too, like cropping and over compressed audio -- both of which are enough to make us yearn for DVD.
The action-packed Blu-ray Disc and DVD are filled with kick-ass bonus features including behind-the-scenes featurettes along with audio commentary with the director, a gag reel and deleted scenes.
Despite its sophistication, users can easily navigate the system, and select titles on-screen using techniques already familiar to all from DVD-archiving and "Media PC" systems, then simply press "Play" and enjoy video and audio performance dramatically better than what's available from the local cinema.
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