[Debris]

Hello,

Just started purchasing my first Hybrid SACDs -- Dylan, Stones, DSoM, etc.

On a lark I popped Blood On The Tracks in the PC (the PC is about 2.5 years
old). The DVD-ROM player doesn't even recognize that there is a disc in the
drive, but the disc plays just fine on the CD-RW burner (I assume that it's
reading the CD / Red Book layer and ignoring the SACD layer). I checked and
the DVD-ROM driver is up to date.

Is this typical, or am I doing something wrong w/ the DVD-ROM?

I don't own any DVD-A's yet, but will they work at all?

Thanks,

D

[Mark D. Zacharias]

Debris wrote:
Hello,

Just started purchasing my first Hybrid SACDs -- Dylan, Stones, DSoM,
etc.
On a lark I popped Blood On The Tracks in the PC (the PC is about 2.5
years old). The DVD-ROM player doesn't even recognize that there is
a disc in the drive, but the disc plays just fine on the CD-RW burner
(I assume that it's reading the CD / Red Book layer and ignoring the
SACD layer). I checked and the DVD-ROM driver is up to date.

Is this typical, or am I doing something wrong w/ the DVD-ROM?

I don't own any DVD-A's yet, but will they work at all?

Thanks,

D

Part of the SACD specification is that they NOT play on computers, as I
understand it. Can't get a signal from the digital OUT of a standalone
player either.

Can't play SACD layers on either dive in my computer.

DVD-Audio no problem, so far.

Mark Z.

[Jeremy Gillow]

Some CD or DVD players have trouble reading the Redbook audio layer on
Hybrid discs. Also, some hybrid discs are "harder" to read than others,
I've found. Most of my discs read fine in my Dell laptop and in my
desktop's Lite-On drive, but my Diana Krall hybrid disc will only read in an
old Sony CD-RW 8x unit that I bought back in 2001. The Redbook layer won't
even work in my Sony 775 DVD/SACD player. Same thing goes for the CD side
of DualDiscs, a lot of players have trouble reading them.

And of course the 5.1 layer is inaccessible on the computer. If you have a
SACD-only disc, you could connect the analog outputs of your SACD player and
record 2-channel through your sound card line-input, but you will lose any
benefits that the higher-quality SACD offered unless you can record higher
resolution than 44.1kHz/16bit. I actually did this with a couple of my
SACDs, because I wanted to be able to listen to the 2-channel version in the
car via iPod.

- Jeremy

"Debris" wrote in message
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Hello,

Just started purchasing my first Hybrid SACDs -- Dylan, Stones, DSoM, etc.

On a lark I popped Blood On The Tracks in the PC (the PC is about 2.5
years old). The DVD-ROM player doesn't even recognize that there is a
disc in the drive, but the disc plays just fine on the CD-RW burner (I
assume that it's reading the CD / Red Book layer and ignoring the SACD
layer). I checked and the DVD-ROM driver is up to date.

Is this typical, or am I doing something wrong w/ the DVD-ROM?

I don't own any DVD-A's yet, but will they work at all?

Thanks,

D

[DaveW]

No they will not work.

--
DaveW

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"Debris" wrote in message
ink.net...
Hello,

Just started purchasing my first Hybrid SACDs -- Dylan, Stones, DSoM, etc.

On a lark I popped Blood On The Tracks in the PC (the PC is about 2.5
years old). The DVD-ROM player doesn't even recognize that there is a
disc in the drive, but the disc plays just fine on the CD-RW burner (I
assume that it's reading the CD / Red Book layer and ignoring the SACD
layer). I checked and the DVD-ROM driver is up to date.

Is this typical, or am I doing something wrong w/ the DVD-ROM?

I don't own any DVD-A's yet, but will they work at all?

Thanks,

D

[Debris]

At the mention of laptop, I popped the disc into my laptop and what do you
know it worked fine. But it's probably because it's a combination DVD-ROM /
CD Burner.

I wanted to be able to listen to the 2-channel version in the car via iPod.

Same here. Fortunately all of the SACDs I've bought are the hybrid ones, so
I can rip the cd layer.

Even so, I must say my enthusiasm for SACD/DVDA is waning. At my local Best
Buy they're literally in the last bin in the back of the music section.
What's there looks like it's been picked over several times.

D


"Jeremy Gillow" wrote in message
.. .
Some CD or DVD players have trouble reading the Redbook audio layer on
Hybrid discs. Also, some hybrid discs are "harder" to read than others,
I've found. Most of my discs read fine in my Dell laptop and in my
desktop's Lite-On drive, but my Diana Krall hybrid disc will only read in
an old Sony CD-RW 8x unit that I bought back in 2001. The Redbook layer
won't even work in my Sony 775 DVD/SACD player. Same thing goes for the
CD side of DualDiscs, a lot of players have trouble reading them.

And of course the 5.1 layer is inaccessible on the computer. If you have
a SACD-only disc, you could connect the analog outputs of your SACD player
and record 2-channel through your sound card line-input, but you will lose
any benefits that the higher-quality SACD offered unless you can record
higher resolution than 44.1kHz/16bit. I actually did this with a couple
of my SACDs, because I wanted to be able to listen to the 2-channel
version in the car via iPod.

- Jeremy

[Kalman Rubinson]

On Thu, 05 Oct 2006 00:21:58 GMT, "Debris"
wrote:

Even so, I must say my enthusiasm for SACD/DVDA is waning. At my local Best
Buy they're literally in the last bin in the back of the music section.
What's there looks like it's been picked over several times.

The selection at BestBuy (at least in my neighborhood) has always been
minimal and uninteresting even when it was more prominent. The
internet vendors are the only way to go and they offer thousands.

Kal