Meridian Unplugged - Powered by MrTechGuy.co.uk Forums Discussion Meridian - Systems Do any B-format Ambisonic DVD-As actually exist?

The manual to my 568.2MM talks about them, and I know ARA proposed flags for B-format, but do any actually exist? If so does the final firmware for the 568.2MM decode it?

Nic

http://www.ambisonic.net/ is maintained by Meridian's Richard Elen. Might be worth a trawl, though all I could find was UHJ.

Edit: http://www.ambisonia.com/ looks promising.

As I understand it, some of the Cheskys are. Not the latest one from John Hammond even though it is greatly enhanced with Ambisonic playback setting.

David Bedford's 'Instructions fo Angels' was originally recorded in UHJ (Ambisonic) - so I suspect that the CD I recently purchased contains the original UHJ codec.



Also, Tomita (against RCA's wishes) recorded 'The Planets' in QS/UHJ rather than in CD4 - so the current CD may still have the original UHJ codec (but since I don't have a Meridian processor I can't corroborate this).

I can only see one Chesky DVD-A on their website, and it doesn't appear to have B-format on it at all, just a load of other discrete formats.

Nic

??? Swing Live?

They are not indicated as to format although David Chesky told me that a few of their recordings are in B-format. OTOH, most are only on SACD as DVD-As have already faded from the market.

Kal

In Nimbus Records you have the series "Surround yourself with" the DVD-Audio is recorded with MLP at 88.2kHz, 20bit 4ch, and in the DVD-Video part you can choose between the PCM 2ch UHJ 48kHz, 24 bit and the DTS 4ch 48 kHz, 24 bit