winopener said:
Sorted.
Not tried the disc yet - only just this second got it, but will get a round tuit later on.
I'll post back with how it behaves here. All I can say right now is that the tracklist is incorrect on the CD side. It's correct up to track 4, then the next three are jumbled up, and the last 2 are correct again.
EDIT
As for the DVD side, the white noise mentioned earlier seems to be by design - they have used a motion menu with Audio, and that Audio seems to be static. Strange, but not a fault. It won't hurt your speakers either, (all white noise is is a full spectrum "noise" but not actual music) but it certainly gets irritating.
The tracklisting is correct on the DVD side, and everything seems to work correctly here on both sides.
Some of the mixes leave a lot to be desired and again sound as if they have been run through a TC 6000, but some are actually well executed. The excerpt from Swan Lake is well done, for example. And the Dishwalla track is also quite good fun. Never heard of them before, so the disc is useful in that respect too.
In all - too much garbage on the menus. It has been said before in these forums - cannot remember who said it, but the thread was about the Deadwing Easter Egg - and I'll repeat it here..these discs are supposed to be
music based and not a quiz. There seems to be a trend for ghastly menus these days, in music discs and movie discs alike. This should really stop - after all, the menu is supposed to be there to help navigate the disc, not become a major part of it IMHO.
But still, at least there is High Res included which has to be worth brownie points.
10/10 to HiFi choice for doing this. 5/10 for content (sorry, but I just don't personally like most of the music on it), and 2/10 for the menus.
All in all though, a good idea. Perhaps there should be more of these type of sampler discs. It would raise awareness of our beloved surround formats in the eyes of the general public.
Which cannot be a bad thing whatever way you look at it.
