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January 1st, 2007 by sqbIt apppears that Rhino/WB applied scant QC in regard to the current IICORMN DVD, and perhaps to the CD either. Reports of HDCD lights not coming on, and DVD-A content not playing on tried and true players by technically informed listeners (the only ones that have the patience to put up with archane navigation systems and bad or incomplete menus).
The final straw was that this producer (me) tried to play his own copy of the new release. I could see the indexes, but no sound. I spent hours with the players settings, etc . No DTS, No DVD-A. The CD worked, anyway.
Dammit.
I can now fully sympathize with the hard core out there.
The net result is that I feel responsible, even though I had no control of things that Warners/Rhino did. All I can do is try to sort it out through this website.
So I hope people that wanted to hear “If I Could Only Remember My Name” in true, high definition surround and can’t because of technical limitations - don’t give up - please register to this site and publish your complaints to the “Bad Disc Reports” category. Note that registration is only needed for posting — browsing the posts and the photos does not require registration.
I hope to have a conversation with someone at Warner/Rhino this month. Hopefully I can find out about or organize some kind of return/replace program.
stay tuned.
in other news…
I should have some photos relating to the iicormn sessions and more technical tours soon.
sqb
February 3rd, 2007 at 11:22:48
Hi: My disc is able to be played as a DVD video with the DTS option available. But the high resolution DVD audio does not play I can see the menu, photos, Lyrics and it plays but no audio. You can see the time counter running, but no sound. I also saw that when it reaches Cowboy movie the counter stops. It gives the impression of an authoring problem. This disc was not checked at QC at all. Probably cheked at the emulation mode within the authoring stage but not an actual pressed disc.
Where you given a Test disc before releasing?
I definetly looking forward for a replacement program soon?
Cheers
DFR
February 3rd, 2007 at 15:43:05
You appear to be a mastering guy. Thanks for writing.
No, I was not given a test of any kind. Just a box of “finished” disks at the end. This was not a nice way to treat the producer of this DVD.
I will do my best to encourage a replacement program.