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Mobile Fidelity Labs, Pioneer, Sony, and Telarc. Over 500 SACD titles were<br />
available by the end of 2001.<br />
A drawback related to DVD-Audio and SACD players is that most audio<br />
receivers with six channels of analog input aren’t able to provide bass management.<br />
Receivers with Dolby Digital and DTS decoders handle bass<br />
management internally, but six-channel analog inputs are usually passed<br />
straight through to the amplifier. Without full bass management on sixchannel<br />
analog inputs, any audio setup that doesn’t have full-range speakers<br />
for all five surround channels will not properly reproduce all the bass<br />
frequencies.<br />
If you are interested in making the most of a DVD-Audio or SACD player,<br />
you need a receiver with six-channel, analog audio inputs. You also need<br />
five full-frequency speakers (that is, each speaker should be able to handle<br />
subwoofer frequencies) and a subwoofer, unless you have a receiver that<br />
can perform bass management on the analog inputs, or you have an outboard<br />
bass management box such as one from Outlaw Audio (www.<br />
outlawaudio.com).<br />
For more on DVD-Audio, including lists of titles and player models, visit<br />
the Digital Audio Guide (www.digitalaudioguide.com).<br />
Which Studios Are Supporting DVD?<br />
All major movie studios and most major music labels support DVD.<br />
When DVD players became available in early 1997, Warner and Polygram<br />
were the only major movie studios to release titles. Additional titles were<br />
available from small publishers. The other studios gradually joined the DVD<br />
camp (see <strong>Chapter</strong> 6’s “Who Is Making or Supporting DVD Products?” for a<br />
full list and refer to this chapter’s “Which DVD Titles Are Available?” for movie<br />
info). Dreamworks was the last significant studio to announce full DVD<br />
support. Paramount, Fox, and Dreamworks initially supported only Divx, but<br />
in the summer of 1998 they each announced support for open DVDs.<br />
Can DVDs Record from VCRs, TVs, and So On?<br />
General DVD 29<br />
The answer is yes. When DVD was originally introduced in 1997, it could<br />
only play. DVD video recorders appeared in Japan at the end of 1999 and<br />
in the rest of the world at the end of 2000. Early units were expensive: from<br />
$2,500 to $4,000. DVD recorders are still quite expensive (typically $500 to<br />
$2000 as of mid-2003), but they will eventually be as cheap as VCRs. DVD<br />
recorders are already being added to satellite and cable receivers, hard-disk<br />
video recorders, and similar boxes.
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