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In Reply to: Panny DVD-A Doesn't Wanna Play posted by lukiedog on January 18, 2007 at 12:18:24:
...all of Panasonic's consumer DVD players and recorders with DVD-A support will only play the 2-channel stereo tracks on most DVD-A discs. And on those DVD-A discs with only multichannel content, the multiple channels will be downmixed to 2-channel stereo.Moreover, any copy-protected DVD-A (this includes all major-label DVD-A discs) played through a digital output (coaxial or optical) will be downsampled to 48kHz sampling rate regardless of the program's originally encoded sampling rate.
As for Kal's response, all of the Panasonic consumer DVD players have only 2-channel stereo analog outputs. You will have to use a digital connection in order to use multichannel sound on those units.
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I assumed (incorrectly) that it is similar to Panasonic's lower-end models, such as their current lower-end DVD recorders. But the DVD-CP72 is a middle-of-the-line unit with a full six analog audio outputs. The owners manual for the DVD-CP72 does not tell you which audio mode is supported for DVD-A.
I'll check it out this weekend. I hope you are wrong about the lock, I just picked up about 10 DVD-A discs. I wonder if the latest firmware corrects that, I know that mine is not the last one issued, but have been holding off on installing it, don't want to mess up what I have now, a pretty good player.
I have deleted the info about the lock. However, the lock applies when you use the digital outputs for audio, in your particular case.
For S/PDIF and TOSLINK, I think there may be a bandwidth issue preventing transmission of hi-res multichannel in addition to the encryption issue. I think the current options are i-Link (IEEE 1394), Denon Link, and HDMI. Although I suspect only HDMI will be supported in the future.
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