DVD SPECTACULAR
 

Questo è un disco sampler utile per testare l'impianto Home Theater. Contiene alcuni test audio e video e un brano audio sia in Dolby 5.1 che stereo. Per vedere questo disco è necessario avere un televisore che codifichi i segnali NTCS (sistema televisivo americano) altimenti si vedrà un'immagine in bianco e nero o a colori ma disturbata da righe oblique.

Stereo Review

"....let me tell you this disc is a glimpse of the audio future — of the DVD-Audio disc — done right. l've carped in these pages about the gimmicky production of some of DTS's remixed 5.1-channel CDs, but the two music tracks on this Delos DVD — Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture, conducted by Andrew Litton and performed by the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, and Richard Rodney Bennett's Barcarole, performed by pianist Carol Rosenberger — are the real deal. lnstead of ping-ponging the instruments around the speakers, the 5.1-channel mixes spread the music across the front three speakers and present the actual sound of the concert hall in the stereo surround channels.

Look, l'm not a classical-music nut, and I could've Iived without ever hearing the 1812 again, but the DVD Spectacular version is, bar none, the most realistic and lifelike 5.1 -channel recording l've heard to date. I wish every recording engineer on the planet could listen to this Delos disc on a good home-theater rig just to hear how much better multichannel music recordings sound when the producer keeps the music in the front channels and the recording venue's natural ambience in the rear surrounds, instead of panning everything around to all the speakers for the cheesy "Sound! Sound! Al Around!" effect....

Besides the two music recordings, DVD Spectacular is chockful al other treats, like a full complement of audio and video test tracks to help you set up your home theater and a slew af Dolby Digital theater trailers to rock your living room just like they do at the movies. All in all, it's a hell of a lot of fun..."

Corey Greenberg