[Ti] 17" alBook vs. SACD/CD

[Erik Gaderlund]

Haven't tried any SACD/CD hybrids as my current collection is SACD 
only.  (Oh, and the hi-res is not (24bit/96k) it's a 1 bit DSD 
process that's supposed to be much better than the old CD standard-or 
at least those who though that 'perfect CD sound' was an oxymoron.)
As for DVD-Audio (along with SACD only), the RIAA is so afraid of 
'perfect digital copies' they have not agreed on a digital format 
(output, like the currrent S/PDIF for CDs) for DVD-Audio or SACD 
(which as usual are incompatible formats) so there is no way your 
internal DVD-VIDEO(ROM) drive could play the disk.  You'll need a 
DVD-Audio-capable player (Denon makes the least expensive ones) to 
listen to the DVD-Audio track.

erik g


At 21:39 -0400 10/10/03, Dave Morrison wrote:
>Has anybody in here had any luck getting any of the hybrid audio 
>disks to play in their 17" PB's? This can include either an SACD/CD 
>hybrid audio disk or a DVD-A disk. For example, I just got a SACD/CD 
>combo disk and it plays fine in the 15" alBook but not in my 17". 
>This disk has a normal redbook CD layer as well as a high-res 
>(24bit/96k) layer but I can't access either one. When I insert the 
>disk, it pops up a dialog box and tells me that I have just inserted 
>an "unformatted DVD" disk and asks me what I want to do with it. 
>When I tell it to run iTunes, it spins up but never mounts the disk 
>on the desktop.
>
>I also stuck in a DVD-A disk that has audio content on one side and 
>video/audio content on the other side. The video side plays fine but 
>not the audio side. Is there an updater for this drive?
>
>dave
>
>
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