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Thursday, 31 August 2000 16:00 |
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On May 13 and 14, 2000, Secrets hosted its first DVD player Benchmark Event (Shootout I) in Redmond, Washington, where we tested numerous DVD players as to their video, audio, functional, and usability qualities. Audio Precision and Tektronix instrumentation were employed to gather extremely accurate data. The information you will see here is much more extensive than you will ever find in any other A/V magazine, on or off the web.
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Written by Stacey Spears
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Thursday, 31 August 2000 16:00 |
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Let's start with a little technical information on DVD. I am never really sure how much to cover and how technical to get. I will do my best to make things as easy as possible for everyone to understand . . .
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Written by Colin Miller
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Thursday, 31 August 2000 16:00 |
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There's the old audiophile myth that measurements don't mean anything because something can measure the same, yet sound vastly different. If you take the specs provided by most manufacturers as measurements . . .
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Written by Stacey Spears
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Saturday, 30 September 2000 16:00 |
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What we covered in Parts 1 and 2 are the most commonly looked at aspects of DVD players. In Part 3 we take a look at another area of performance that I believe has been seriously neglected by everyone, including us (up until now) . . .
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Written by Evan Upchurch
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Saturday, 30 September 2000 16:00 |
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One of the areas that gets short shrift from many DVD player reviews is the actual usability of the players. Sure, some reviewers talk about the layout of the remote, but only indirectly communicate usability issues . . .
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Written by Don Munsil and Brian Florian
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Saturday, 30 September 2000 16:00 |
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It has long been our feeling that one can learn much more about the
quality of a DVD player by watching lousy DVD movie material than you
can learn by watching great material. Great material tends to look fine
on just about every player . . .
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Written by John Kotches, Don Munsil, Colin Miller, Brian Florian, and Stacey Spears
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Monday, 03 December 2007 04:18 |
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In mid-2000, after a long delay for a variety of issues, DVD-Audio
(DVD-A) was given an inauspicious launch with the arrival of the first
DVD-Audio players. It's been over a year since the first players have
hit the market, and this marks our first foray into a background
article explaining the technology behind DVD-Audio . . .
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Written by Don Munsil and Stacey Spears
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Saturday, 31 March 2001 16:00 |
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We first wrote about the Chroma Upsampling Error (CUE) back in April, 2001. At that time, we only told you half the story (because we had not worked out the second half yet) . . .
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