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 ...

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 ...

Michael Bay's explosions are keeping you up at night, but don't blame the neighbors. Most DVDs are mixed to be played in the movie theaternot at home. Even a puny stereo home theater system will annoy ...

Yamaha today introduced the DVD-S1800 universal DVD player and the DVD-C961 Super Audio CD/DVD-Audio Changer. Both offer 1080p video output via HDMI and also support DVD-Audio and Super Audio CD ...

Extract audio streams from Blu-ray, DVD-Audio and DVD-Video discs and save them as OGG, MP3, Wave or FLAC files. DVD Audio Extractor can also demux audio streams directly to mlp, pcm, mpa, ac3 or dts ...

It's been a long, bumpy road, and it's probably going to be even longer and bumpier, but the first products specifically designed for DVD-Audio have been announced for release in July 2000, by ...

[Editor’s note: The MPAA and most media companies argue that you can’t legally copy or convert commercial DVDs for any reason. We (and others) think that, if you own a DVD, you should be able to ...

Donald Bell has spent more than five years as a CNET senior editor, reviewing everything from MP3 players to the first three generations of the Apple iPad. He currently devotes his time to producing ...

Does anyone have comparison experience of say, Denon and Rotel DVD players to high end CD players? I'm curious to know how the latest generation of DVD's compares in terms of audio quality to high end ...

Let's dispel the mystery about the back of your DVD player by using the most complex type of DVD player available as our example, the Universal DVD player. Universal DVD players like Onkyo's DV-SP1000 ...

I. Background on surround sound The first commercially multichannel sound formats were developed in the early 1950s for movie theaters. Even when TV, radio, and phonographs were still mono, some ...

Extract audio streams from Blu-ray, DVD-Audio and DVD-Video discs and save them as OGG, MP3, Wave or FLAC files. DVD Audio Extractor can also demux audio streams directly to mlp, pcm, mpa, ac3 or dts ...