My old Sony pre/pro did that too. It got to be annoying enough for me to buy a Denon DVD player (I bought the 3800). Denon's players all have a 4-16mb buffered playback, I rarely notice a layer-change anymore.

Other than buying a dvd-player w/ a buffer (not sure if any other than the denon rigs have it), I believe the 950's manual addresses this audio drop. Something about not auto-decoding the signal but "locking" in a certain sound format? Sounds mildly annoying to me...

[This message has been edited by jgubman (edited April 03, 2003).]