Uncommon Bach - Music Experience in 3-Dimensional Sound Reality TM [HD DVD DTSHD Surround Music Disc] [HD DVD]

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The whole thing's just weird. I Purchased this title because of the DTS HD Master Audio track and because I assumed it was a surround sound mix of an orchestra playing Bach. Quite the contrary - this is no more than a synthesizer playing out of all my speakers. I'd have to agree with another poster that said it had a monotone sound. Wouldn't you know, the first time I purchase something without reading customer reviews I get burned. Now if it was really well done I'd probably be happy anyway but it's not.

You will find that they are ALL overwhelmingly and consitantly for this series alone (There very few for others, BUT EVEN THOSE are cross-linked right back to promote these, so you are always directed to these discs). There is nothing artistic or creative here at all. Amazon reviewers have steered me clear of other bad products and consumer rip-offs in the past while greatly aiding my many purchase decisions, and I feel happy to be able to give back to the community here. I have carefully investigated the histories of all of these "5 star" reviewers and commenters for this series, and I encourage you to do the same. The same goes for this entire series. It's likely that the same will happen to this review as well.

If you are doubtful of what I am saying, go ahead and order it anyway and see for yourself. Of course that is the reason that you do not see any samples here, if there were no one would be spending any money on this. This very same person also seems to lurk here and almost immediately responds to any honest reviews by attacking the reviewer and often posting a new fake review under a different fake alias in an attempt to bury the honest review, again with the very same language characteristics and consistent mispellings. You can see this for yourself by simply clicking on all of the reviewer's (and commenter's) names and looking at their other reviews, comments and even lists. All they did here was add the extra channels, but this adds absolutely nothing whatsover to the experience of listening to this and is of very poor quality anyway. I hope that Amazon will take some action against these dishonest and sleazy marketing tactics. It has happened to me on my reviews of other discs in this series (Uncommon Bach standard dvd and Uncommon Mozart) where I have been repeatedly attacked as this seller tries to discredit me.

What this is here is a known guerilla marketing tactic, perpetrated I strongly believe, by one or just a few persons. Here is what really throws up the red flags though: After much research I have concluded that every single one of the positive reviews here are fake, written to convince you that this is a actually a good product worthy of your hard-earned money and time spent listening to. If you want to know what this sounds like, just listen to a Casio keyboard playing any ol' public domain classical music. Again, it just sounds like an electronic keyboard playing on your sound system (awful). You can even find other message boards on other sites with the same exact types of comments, language, etc.

I'd bet you'll find yourself returning it while shaking your head in disbelief after first listen. Rubbish of this kind is even available many places for free. This disc is nothing more than midi music recorded on multiple channels, or crap in surround to be blunt about it. In comparing them you will see the exact SAME type of language usage, idiosyncracies and mispellings throughout and across all of these, under all of the different aliases.

The audio is the Uncommon Bach music but in this one (I have the DTS Music disc of Uncommon Bach and that is uniquely an organ piece) you have different kinds of musical instruments. The audio is in DTS-HD HR.

My Toshiba HD DVD cannot decode HR (High Resolution) at this time but I hope an update will enable HR, one day. When the end is reached, it automatically loops from the beginning.

But the DTS surround is quite nice.

Can be used as a good demo to receive friends for an HD event, such as a movie. This recording is kind of special, the Video consist of a photo of an exotic flower, shot at close range, which changes every 10 seconds to a new flower.

This is a very relaxing recording.

Recommend is to everybody who like Bach and also for whose who want to explore capabilities of surround sound on HD DVD. I bought several HD DVD concert titles I enjoy them a lot Great Picture quality but over all sound not that match different then standard DVD but this is something that makes a difference and really stands out. Never heard anything like this before.

Now we can enjoy this kind of titles and watch our favorite movies on HD DVD players enjoying crystal clarity of HD visuals and sound. Two Thumbs Up. I was very glad to find out that Multichannel Music finally found its way on HD DVD along with DVD-Audio and SACD. This is a great starter that is not only presenting the new way to enjoy music on HD DVD but also the revolutionary approach to arrange and produce music specifically for Multichannel Hi-definition Audio Experience.