SACD question

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I recently purchased the SACD edition of "Every Breath You Take", a
collection of The Police's Greatest Hits. The album has a standard
Redbook CD layer so I can play it in my car and my PC, but the back of
the package also says that it contains both SACD Stereo and SACD
Surround Sound audio. I'm looking into buying an SACD capable DVD
player for my surround system, and I'm curious as to how the players
will let me switch between the Stereo and Surround portions of the
disc. Can anyone help me?

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<OneActor1@aol.com> wrote in message news:crrlpl01muh@news2.newsguy.com...
> I recently purchased the SACD edition of "Every Breath You Take", a
> collection of The Police's Greatest Hits. The album has a standard
> Redbook CD layer so I can play it in my car and my PC, but the back of
> the package also says that it contains both SACD Stereo and SACD
> Surround Sound audio. I'm looking into buying an SACD capable DVD
> player for my surround system, and I'm curious as to how the players
> will let me switch between the Stereo and Surround portions of the
> disc. Can anyone help me?

That varies from manufacturer to manufacturer. If you are going SACD/DVD,
one of the advantages of staying with SONY is that they make this pretty
simple...you can choose the default of your choice from the setup menu
(stereo, multichannel) and the player automatically seeks out that segment
if it is a SACD that is inserted, or reverts to DVD or CD if those disks are
inserted. Some players apparently make you manual switch to stereo from
multichannel disk by disk...which would be a real drag.