A friend lent me The Wall, Dark Side Of The Moon and Wish You Were Here, Pink Floyd. Bothers In Arms - Dire Straits, A Night At The Opera and Greatest His, Queen. I would like to buy these albums plus more DTS 5.1 cd albums, but Virgin are unable to help. Any help please

[Keith Hurst]

try this in the first instance...

http://www.5point1.com/index2.html

do a search in Google for "DTS CD" buy

Regards
KH

Originally Posted by Ian_

A friend lent me The Wall, Dark Side Of The Moon and Wish You Were Here, Pink Floyd. Bothers In Arms - Dire Straits, A Night At The Opera and Greatest His, Queen. I would like to buy these albums plus more DTS 5.1 cd albums, but Virgin are unable to help. Any help please

Some of the DTS CDs you list are not official releases. The Queen Greatest Hits is available on DVD-V and A Night At The Opera is available on DVD-A, both have a DTS track. The Pink Floyd DTS CDs are conversions of old quad 8-track or quad vinyl releases done by enthusiasts and are not available to buy.

[Kenny Glasgow]

There are loads of these unofficial DTS CDs doing the rounds including most of the Beatles and Floyd albums, Steve Miller, ZZ Top etc and sound very good in parts, not so good in others.

Just shows what can be done though

[per-Sony-fied]

When did they start releasing these type of CD's? First I'd heard of them was just days ago!

I guess developed for use in DVD players and/or SACD multi channel (can they play standard CD's too?)

Originally Posted by per-Sony-fied

When did they start releasing these type of CD's? First I'd heard of them was just days ago!

I guess developed for use in DVD players and/or SACD multi channel (can they play standard CD's too?)

The first discs appeared about 1999ish I think. All you need to play them is a CD player with an optical or co-ax out and a reciever with a DTS decoder. Spose you could also use a DVD player that did DTS encoding internally with the 6 channel outs.

Need to be careful though not to accidently play them undecoded as you'll get a nasty digital static sound that is unpleasant for your speakers and ears.

[bad ass]

i bought the eagles - hell freezes over dts CD from play.com they have a few others its absolutely amazing, i demo it at work and always a winner on hotel california and desperado.

http://www.play.com/play247.asp?pa=s...&Go.x=0&Go.y=0 theres a link for you

[Ray]

Err.... so what's the difference between SACD and DTS CD ? Can you get 5.1 DTS via optical on these CDs ? If so will this finally kill off SACD ?

Ray

Originally Posted by Rayfin

Err.... so what's the difference between SACD and DTS CD ? Can you get 5.1 DTS via optical on these CDs ? If so will this finally kill off SACD ?

Ray

A hybrid SACD (most of them are hybrid) will play on any standard CD player, a DTS CD will not. An SACD will have a stereo mix in addition to the multichannel mix, a DTS CD will not. An SACD is lossless hi-res a DTS CD is lossy.

"Can you get 5.1 DTS via optical". Yes, if you have a suitable reciever.

[Kenny Glasgow]

Originally Posted by Mandel

A hybrid SACD (most of them are hybrid) will play on any standard CD player, a DTS CD will not. An SACD will have a stereo mix in addition to the multichannel mix, a DTS CD will not. An SACD is lossless hi-res a DTS CD is lossy.

"Can you get 5.1 DTS via optical". Yes, if you have a suitable reciever.

Mandel, a "standard CD player" will play DTS CDs providing that it is connected an AV pre/pro via the digital i/o and the pre/pro can decode DTS

Originally Posted by Kenny Glasgow

Mandel, a "standard CD player" will play DTS CDs providing that it is connected an AV pre/pro via the digital i/o and the pre/pro can decode DTS

I believe I said that about 4 posts ago.

[Kenny Glasgow]

i believe that you did

[Ray]

Originally Posted by Mandel

An SACD will have a stereo mix in addition to the multichannel mix, a DTS CD will not.

Not a problem - I'm only interested in the 5.1 mix.

Originally Posted by Mandel

An SACD is lossless hi-res a DTS CD is lossy.

Again not a problem as my ears are full of wax anyway

Originally Posted by Mandel

"Can you get 5.1 DTS via optical". Yes, if you have a suitable reciever.

Great - this is what I wanted to hear as it will free up my analogue inputs for surround gaming with my PC sound card. Now a quick visit to Play.com methinks .....

Ray

Originally Posted by Rayfin

Great - this is what I wanted to hear as it will free up my analogue inputs for surround gaming with my PC sound card. Now a quick visit to Play.com methinks .....

Ray

Just make sure you have your volume turned down *LOW* the first time you try to play one, just in case the amp doesn't lock onto the DTS stream properly or something.

[Ray]

Originally Posted by Mandel

Just make sure you have your volume turned down *LOW* the first time you try to play one.

What with all that wax in my ears ?