From: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org (avalon-digest) To: avalon-digest@smoe.org Subject: avalon-digest V12 #516 Reply-To: avalon@smoe.org Sender: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk avalon-digest Saturday, December 20 2008 Volume 12 : Number 516 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [AVALON] Giddy Up ["andy harrison" ] [AVALON] more on Ferry Bete Noire DVD sound [Jeff Turner Subject: [AVALON] Giddy Up Free download http://expressionrecords.com/shop/index.php?maincat_id=21 ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 23:27:04 -0600 From: Jeff Turner Subject: [AVALON] more on Ferry Bete Noire DVD sound Last week I reported that the Ferry Bete Noire DVD had only stereo sound instead of the Dolby 5.1 it was allegedly supposed to have. Well, I was only half right. The 2002 concert is only in Dolby 2.0. The 1988 Bete Noire show, however, is in Dolby 5.1. Apparently recently, when I was doing initial setup on a new Blu-ray player I'd bought, I accidentally flipped a setting on my old DVD player, and it was only outputting 2-channel PCM sound instead of full multichannel sound. Both my DVD and my Blu-ray are Panasonics, and they were responding to each other's remotes till I changed the code set on the Blu-ray remote. Up until that point, however, the DVD player was attempting to carry out the commands I was sending to the Blu-ray. I discovered I had a problem this evening when DVDs I knew to be in 5.1 would not play that way. A lot of cussing and fumbling with wires and manuals, "assisted" by my cats, and I finally got things straightened out. However, in spite of being in 5.1, the Bete Noire show is not a very immersive experience sonically. It just has a little more ambience. Regards, Jeff _________________________________________________________________ Life on your PC is safer, easier, and more enjoyable with Windows Vista.. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/127032870/direct/01/ ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ End of avalon-digest V12 #516 ***************************** ======================================================================== For further info, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: info avalon-digest