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How many audio DACs are in the DV-58AV? Does it use eight DACs (one for each preoutput), six (one for each channel), or three (with each DAC in stereo mode)?

Quote: Originally Posted by lyris It sounds like they have changed quite a lot - 2:2 from PAL discs - even ones that aren't properly Progressively Flagged! - is sitting right in front of me and playing as we speak! Are you A-Bing a European and US player, or just the European player with the "enhanced firmware"? Like I said in previous posts, the DV-980H does not Fail 2:2, it just does them more poorly than a player...

Quote: Originally Posted by Big C How many audio DACs are in the DV-58AV? Does it use eight DACs (one for each preoutput), six (one for each channel), or three (with each DAC in stereo mode)? The 58 has 3 stereo DAC's to handle all 6 channels. I believe the L/R and the multichannel L/R share one DAC. The signal is identical on both sets. The photo at Pioneerfaq.com clearly shows the 3 Texas Instrument BB DAC's (along with a whole...

Quote: Originally Posted by Lonely Surfer I have both players and don't notice any difference in picture quality. I will sometimes turn the Sharp off, with excessively grainy movies or ones with too much inherent edge enhancement. Normally, I have it turned on, however. Thanks L.S.. Makes me feel better about my purchase knowing the IQ is the same between the two. I watched Underworld on it last night and it looked great on my...

If you use a nice programmable universal remote, you could program a sequence of commands that will allow you to press just one button on the remote to do everything you need to switch from dvd watching, to high-rez audio listening.

I guess nobody got the message. I never started playing around with LD until this year. Why? Because I wanted high quality preservations as explained before. I think it's awesome that I can do what VHS never could. This wouldn't be so significant if I could get to the studio masters :-)

Quote: Originally Posted by Big C Is it YGD8827A? I just want to make sure that's really the latest one. Assuming that you now have 8827 in your player, are you going to install Hakan's firmware and put the factory firmware back in only if you need to have repair work done on the player? As far as Pioneer restructuring is concerned, I'm thinking that being that they're moving their head office, as well as settling legal...

Im trying to find a good Pioneer std dvd player hows the 420s layer change,does it need a firmware upgrade? thanks

Quote: Originally Posted by Unolord Ok tried the Verbatim software and it worked! I used MS Disk Management and Maxtor's Software - it's a Maxtor drive - and it's the Verbatim formatting software that works. Go figure.... Thanks Jam. Glad to hear it. Finicky stuff, eh?

Quote: Originally Posted by RichB I know that the OPPO does not pass full HD audio from DVD-Audio or SACD unless the resolution is set to 720P or higher. Would it be possible to have another setting for the resolution used for DVD-Audio/SACD so that 480i could be sent to the processor and have the output switch when playing HD audio? - Rich Not that I know of but output resolution switching is easily accomplished on the fly from the remote...