Product Details

• Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround), English (DTS 5.1)
• Region: All Regions
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Unapix / a-Pix Ent.
• DVD Release Date: December 7, 1999
• Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• ASIN: 1575238462
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #398,640 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

Designed as more of a system show-off than system set-up set, The Ultimate DVD Gold is best viewed for the sheer pleasure of its aural and visual vignettes. Lengthier than the Silver edition and not as complete as Platinum (which includes more demos and a second, system set-up and diagnostic disc), this disc showcases different features and capabilities of DVD-video, from screen formats and multi-angle viewing to multiple languages and surround-sound formats such as DTS, Dolby Digital, and Dolby Pro Logic. For demo material, the disc draws from a deep and exciting reserve of quality filmmaking and animation, including excerpts from classics ("Chronos," "Beyond the Mind's Eye") and lesser-known gems ("Liquefied," "Jackpot"), as well as documentaries ("Boeing 777 PTQ," "Africa: The Serengeti") and music (Alan Parsons, Thomas Dolby).

Highly useful is the ability to compare the quality and characteristics of the different surround formats in use today (provided your DVD player or surround receiver can decode them). If your DVD remote has an Audio button, you can even switch between Dolby Digital and DTS 5.1-channel soundtracks while you watch. Audiophiles will delight in both the prominence of 5.1-channel music and the presence of several music-only tracks recorded by Mapleshade and WILDCHILD! Records at 96-kHz/24-bit resolution. (Listen through your DVD player's analog outputs here; again, you must have compatible hardware--in this case, 96-kHz/24-bit digital-to-analog converters--to appreciate this feature.) This set is pure candy for the eyes and ears--gorge yourself. --Michael Mikesell

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

24 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars DVD Gold seems better than it is., February 20, 2003

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Jason (Denver, CO United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Ultimate DVD Gold (DVD)

I have owned an HK DVD player for a few years now and I have been following DTS audio for a while. I got this DVD based on good reviews I have heard. After recieving the DVD, I found that it was not quite what I expected. There were a few DTS tracks that were ok. But overall I was disippointed in the DVD because I felt that it did not even come close to utilizing the potential of DTS. It is chock full of "Nature" videos (samples) that played music over video...while put together well, it lacked the sound I was after. There is a Blue Angels section that I went right to when I got the DVD thinking there would be some great sound fields involved....alas, it was a well shot video with nothing but music playing in the background.

Bottom line, if you want to push your system into doing what it is capable of, this DVD will not impress you.