currently have

DVD-A
Evangelion III
Death of Evangelion
Kenwood 5.1 Sampler

SACD
The Police-Every Breath You Take
Amadeus soundtrack
Genesis-Invisible Touch

small but I hope to buy some more and if they were cheaper I buy a whole bunch

Still looking for the rest of the Evangelion DVD-As, Yahoo.jp seems to be the only place for them....maybe Amazon.jp as well...

I have one of each; Nightwish - Once on DVD-A and Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of the War of the Worlds on SACD.

I don't have a player capable of playing either formats in their proper way though. SACD and DVD-A are usually backwards compatible with CD and DVD (respectively) players by playing lower quality versions which are stored in a seperate layer on SACD and a separate folder on DVD-A.

does Once look the same as the regular version and just says DVD-A or does it have a different cover?..I've been thinking of finding and possibly get it if I found it

Here's a picture I found of the version I have, I can take better quality pictures when I get home if you like:



As with most DVD-As it comes in a tall jewel case. The surround mix is pretty good, though I remember thinking that the vocals were too centralised. There's also an added sound effect of a penny dropping at the end of Planet Hell that isn't in the CD mix. There's also bonus tracks (including an excellent cover of Symphony of Destruction with Marco on vocals) and music videos (a downside though is that the video for I Wish I Had An Angel is the version for the Alone in the Dark film rather than the original Finnish video).

It's been ages since I've listened to it as I've not had a surround set up for quite a few years now. Will hopefully dust it off and give it a spin again some day.

When I was last in Helsinki I also found a copy of Dark Passion Play on DVD-A but didn't buy it due to the lack of current surround set up, good to know it's out there though.

Hope this helps.

thanks for the info. was there a russian one? I found this http://www.ebay.com/itm/NIGHTWISH-Once- ... 2a167d4701 and this http://www.musicstack.com/album/nightwi ... dvd+audio= are they legit that you know of?

Own a handful ...

DVD-A
David (Bowie) Live at the Tower Philadelphia
The Very Best of the Foundations
Linkin Park (Reanimation)

SACD

Elton John
* Captain Fantastic
* Madman Across the Water
* Tumbleweed Connection

Living Stereo Brahms Tchaikovsky Violin concertos ... Chicago Symphony REINER

I like the formats but the discs are just too high priced for an avid bargain hunter like me. I listen to my music on vinyl (mostly) and the Redbook CD formats. Own a really nice CD player ... The AH! NJOE TJOEB 4000 CD Player ... stock Marantz model CD-4000 modified by the dutch with a "tubed output stage" ... it makes Redbook CD(s) tolerable once the tubes warm up.

http://www.enjoythemusic.com/magazine/equipment/0501/tjoeb4000.htm

I have all five Evangelion DVD-Audios.
Sadly no more were ever made.

No SACD's at all.

I have heard something about the Russian versions but I can't remember what...my gut tells me that they're bootlegs.

I bought my copy from play.com back in the day when they still sold them.

I just did a quick check on ebay and I think these two look legit:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/NIGHTWISH-ONCE-DVD-AUDIO-DISC-/140649966213?pt=UK_Music_Other_Music_Formats_ET&hash=item20bf642a85#ht_500wt_1287

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/NIGHTWISH-TARJA-ONCE-DVD-AUDIO-DOLBY-DIGITAL-5-1-NUCLEAR-BLAST-/130612459724?pt=UK_CDsDVDs_DVDs_DVDs_GL&hash=item1e691bf8cc#ht_593wt_1270

The best place to ask would maybe be the Nightwish forum, I'm sure they'll know about the Russian version.

I hope this helps.

I've just remembered, I also own the Mike Oldfield Tubular Bells Ultimate box which includes a DVD which contains the album in surround sound...I'm not sure if it's an actual DVD-A though. The CDs in the box are just standard CDs, no SACDs.

SACD:
Pink Floyd - The Dark Side Of The Moon

This SACD is utterly amazing, I highly recommend it to any Pink Floyd fan.
I have the equipment to fully enjoy this disk in all its 5.1 glory, now I want more SACD's

Ed

lucky.... makes me wonder why Hi Rez at all for the releases. was there ever a Rebirth album or is it just Death and EOE as far as the movies go?

anyway there's a way too many cds to get for this franchise its so ridiculous

http://www.pustan.com/anime/eva8.html

They probably made them just because they felt like it
Have there been any other anime related DVD-Audio releases at all?
I can think of some (or was it only one?) SACD that Ghibli made, but nothing else comes to mind.

And while I bought a bunch of Evangelion CD's, I would not dare and try to collect them all.
Simply too many of them out there.

that site as been one of the most useful collection site and nicely organized that I've seen.

hopefully I get to here Tarja soon on DVD-Audio. I can't wait for the disc to arrive I am so anxious I just love her:)

went looking for the others and found there getting more expensive or at least YahooJP http://auctions.search.yahoo.co.jp/sear ... &ei=euc-jp

Woah... I bought all but one new from cdjapan back in the day.
Yeah those auction prices are amazing.

I have this disk as well, and if your a pink floyd fan, you definitely should pick this up (and an SACD compatible player).

My only DVD-Audio disc is
Holst
The Planets
The Mystic Trumpeter
Royal Scottish National Orchestra
Label its under is: NAXOS 5.11004

The mix on it is rubbish the centre from far as I can recall is mute or rather nothing encoded onto centre discrete only the left and right fronts alone with stereo surrounds and LFE.1 I can’t recall if its got one or if its very faint in level.

Sigh it was a waste of money, and I have other versions of the planets that is only CD audio Stereo with better mix quality and demo dts CD that has track from Mars the bringer of war that is warm sounding punchy lows over LCRS and supernova LFE.1 that goes below 20Hz!!

Once came in the mail and it shows other tracks on it but I can only play 12 tracks and also no video clips like it shows on the back cover. Is this normal or did I get ripped off. I'm using a Pioneer DV-58AV

I'm not sure. I only have one DVD-A, when I put it into the player I get a standard DVD menu with the options of playing the album in 5.1 or 2.0 as well as an extras menu. On this disc one of the bonus tracks (an unused track from the album) plays after the album while the others (live and re-mixes) are in the bonus menu along with any videos.

I assume this will vary from disc to disc but if you have a menu with a bonus section I'd recommend checking there.

strange it works in a normal DVD Player for the music videos and the bonus tracks. I tried it with a Curtis DVD player. I can't figure out unless its some setting I need to change to play everything on the disc on my Pioneer.