Looking for a good Surround-Sound TEST/SHOWOFF DVD!

[DVantrease]

I'm finally moving up from TV speakers to a new surround-sound home theater system on Fathers Day (honey, I love you!). This will all be new to me. I was wondering if there's some kind of 'test' DVD available, for testing and/or 'showing off' the surround-sound Dolby features. One that checks all channels, and has cool sound effects like maybe planes/spaceships flying overhead from side to side, or monsters coming up from behind, etc. I looked at BestBuy and saw nothing. I know there are good movies (Matrix, etc) but I was looking for something that is 100% 'ear candy'. Even an audio CD would do, if the offer surround-sound.

[jexster]

Actually they do sell a dvd for that it runs around $20.00.But dvd's movies with thq on them usually have a test on them if you look on one thats thq there should be a thq sign in white that you can click on.

[pacmania_2001]

THX I think you mean, best of these movies is probably Star Wars: EP1, shit movie, best DVD

[jexster]

THX I think you mean, best of these movies is probably Star Wars: EP1, shit movie, best DVD

Um yeah your right i have no idea were that came from.That will teach me to stay up all night playing on my computer.

[liquid217]

well if you had a dvd burner (or maybe someone who does), these are some good ear candy.

http://www.cinenow.com/uk/vobtrailer.php3

[DVantrease]

Cool! Now let me ask a dumb question... Are (some) music CD's in surround sound? Maybe I can find an audio cd that 'shows off' the dolby.

That website looks interesting. I don't have a DVD burner, but a friend does. After downloading several clips, any special way he should burn these for me to play on my DVD player? I mean I don't know how his dvd-burning compares to my VCD burning.

[liquid217]

well the best an audio cd could do is dolby pro-logic. sorry i can't think of any right now. those vob's are dolby digital, which are 5.1, meaning there are 5 separate channels being played. pro-logic is just two channels widened out to make it feel like its surround. Maybe the more experienced dvd-r people would be able to tell you the proper way of getting those vob's onto a dvd. (it bay just be a simple matter of getting something like ulead's movie maker and dropping them in.

[nfl2k2]

The Chemical brothers (music group) have this song called "Bass Test." Download it with Kazaa, convert to WAV, burn it to a cd-r and try it out. If you like it I'd buy their CD so that you have WAV quality instead of MP3.

[Craig Tucker]

The intro sequence of toy story 2 is really good for showing of your 5.1 system, good seperation of channels and tons of bass. If I turn up the wick on my 110w per channel 5.1 sony amp, with mourdaunt short speakers and paradigm bass box, I can feel the sofa vibrating

Craig