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  1. Oh dear, that's not good. Most DVDs I come across are dual layer. I'm not being funny or anything, but why would anyone actually want to play DVDs in a car (on the screen in the front console)? Am I missing something? I've stuck a few music DVD-videos in while driving to work and back. You get the 5.1 surround sound, but no pictures. Good enough as a listening experience nonetheless. I haven't bothered trying to play any other DVD-video. The one DVD-A that I tried played splendidly and the MLS handles the high resolution 5.1 material very nicely indeed. I've played a few DVD+RW with AAC-encoded audio on (is that right? All these standards puzzle me a little) and that was fine as well. Lots of albums (approx 17 unless I'm mistaken) in very acceptable quality. As I mentioned earlier, I've played half a dozen hybrid CD/SACD and they played as CDs. The manual is a little cagey and says that SACD might not play. Well the hybrids certainly don't, but I've got no non-hybrid SACDs so I wouldn't know if it's the presence of the CD layer that prevents the SACD layer playing. As for DVD-A and SACD being competing standards, yes, it's quite true, but there are plenty of players out now that will happily play both. I've only recently picked up a Pioneer DV600AV, which upscales DVD-video to 1080p and plays DVD-A and SACD too, as well as dts-CD. Not bad for £130, but I digress... I suspect that most dual discs (that's one side CD and the other DVD, rather than dual layer, one-sided DVDs or double sided DVDS) don't have DVD-audio encoding on the DVD side,which should be OK as far as I can tell from the manual, which only goes as far as saying the DVD-A material won't be played from CD/DVD dual discs. I believe that the discs I'm thinking of buying have dts and dolby 5.1 tracks, but no DVD-A as such. But if anyone has first-hand experience of these blighters I'd be interested to know. I may have said that earlier! Finally, I THINK I've played dual layer DVDs without any bother, but I'm not sure so I may go and give it a try just for the hell of it. Cheers...
  2. Evening all (at least it is at the time of writing) I wonder if I might ask a simple question. Has anybody out there tried to play a dual-sided disc in the Mark Levinson DVD player in their IS250? The player hasn't recognised the SACD layer of those hybrid CD/SACD discs that I've tried, although DVD-A and dts-CD have played splendidly with tremendous results. I was musing upon buying one or two dual discs, but I don't want to waste my money if they won't play in the car. Hell, it's the best sound system I've got! Thanks in anticipation of your collected experience...
  3. I couldn't tell for sure whether the gent to whom I spoke in Lexus Stockport was serious or not when he suggested that it might be the satellites. To be honest, the first time it happened I thought I'd better check to make sure that my Garmin hand-held wasn't manifesting the same problem. Ludicrously unlikely I know, but, well, just to make certain... (It wasn't, of course). Still, you never know whether you can trust the US military to let you know for sure whereabouts you're driving at any one time
  4. Almost correct. I was provided with a new Sat Nav unit and DVD (and incidentally it has made no difference whatsoever). Lexus Stockport are now of the opinion that it's the GPS aerial (either that or the GPS satellites), but are awaiting advice from Lexus GB gefore taking further action. The audio system is unchanged so I shan't have the opportunity to try my little experiment out. Shame.
  5. It's an original pressed CD. Straight out of the box and never played before. Unblemished playing surface and everything! I have, in fact, had the sound system do that all-sound-stopping trick on me once before (some months ago), but playing the same piece again didn't cause the problem to recur on that occasion. Very odd indeed.
  6. Recently, while playing a previously unplayed CD on my way to work, the audio system suddenly stopped working. The CD player believed that the CD was still playing, but there was no sound at all. The Radio didn't work and the controls in the Sound and DSP screens were unresponsive. The other controls affecting the rest of the audio system were sluggish, but did eventually respond. Turning the audio off and back on again had no effect. After turning off the engine and restarting, the system worked as normal, but at exactly the same point in the same CD the same thing happened again. This phenomenon is reliably reproducible. The problem hasn't occurred with any other CDs since I first noticed it. As chance would have it my MM system is being replaced by Lexus Stockport because of the Sat Nav problem (which has been previously described in these pages) in which the system believes the car to be driving around through fields and up the wrong road, etc. This will give me the chance to try the CD that caused the problem on the new MM system. Before I do however, I thougth I might ask whether anyone else has had this problem. I can't imagine why one particular CD, being played for the first time (and which causes no problems on any of my other CD players) should cause the whole sound system to stop working. Strange! All the best, Bonesun
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