A Notice from Sony ElectronicsIn the email to Sony Authorized Dealers, Stan Glasgow, who is the Head of Consumer Product Sales at Sony Electronics of America says that "As you are no doubt aware, the music industry is on the verge of launching a new two sided media product called Dual Disc similar in size to a DVD and CD. This Dual Disc mates DVD recorded material on one side with digital audio material on the other side. However, the audio side of this new media does not meet the technical specifications to be called an "Audio Compact Disc".The DVD video content on the DVD side of the Dual Disc should play on, and be compatible with, Sony DVD players and DVD drives. However, Sony DVD players and drives do not support DVD Audio and these devices will not play the DVD Audio formatted content offered on the DVD side of a Dual Disc but should play all other audio content offered on the DVD side. In addition, since the audio side of the Dual Disc does not comply with Audio Compact Disc specifications, it may not be read by Sony DVD and CD players and drives.In an effort to inform consumers, Sony Electronics will be placing stickers on some of our products in the future alerting consumers to these potential compatibility issues. We will also advise consumers about this issue by our placement of inserts into our products as well as placing information (FAQs) on the sonystyle.com website. We trust that you will communicate this information to your employees so that they may properly educate consumers on this issue in order to minimize the risk of returns relating to compatibility between hardware products and Dual Discs.
Dual Disc Compatibility Issues With Some Players
Readers of High Fidelity Review know that we have been following the Dual Disc story since it was first announced last year. Just prior to the format's launch, it was discussed at the Surround 2004 Conference in Hollywood in early September. At that time, the five major record labels backing the Dual Disc format acknowledged the disc would not play in some CD, DVD, SACD, Car Stereo and Computer Disc players. However, they did not believe the percentage of existing players that would have problems with the Dual Discs would be a barrier to the format's ultimate success. They also announced their plans to label every Dual Disc released with a disclaimer that the disc "may not play on a limited number of models".To date, the reaction to Dual Disc has been mostly positive with the Dual Discs playing acceptably on most players. However, there have been reports on several Internet web sites of problems playing the disc with a number of consumer products including some PC Disc drives, Apple Mac Disc drives, some Car Stereo players, some boom box models and some CD, DVD and SACD player models. In the latter group, players consumers have cited as having problems with Dual Disc playback include the Denon 3800 DVD Video & Audio player, the Pioneer 563A DVD Video, DVD Audio & SACD player, the Toshiba SD-9200 DVD Video & Audio player and the Sony XA777ES and Sony C333ES SACD players
Troppa confusione sul mercato :favorisce gli universali ma il problema e' che di economici e ben suonanti non ne esistono.E niente decoder negli ampli, un suicidio,per la vita dell'ampli(permanenza nella nostra casa per obsolescenza, oltre che per la bassa qualita' degli HT integrati).
