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unmarked HDCD's

I have been digging through some cd's lately and have found a few that are NOT marked as HDCD encoded, but when I play them the HDCD indicator on my Toshiba SD-3109 dvd lights up. I thought liscensing required all HDCD discs to be marked. For example, 4 discs that I have found: Faith No More- Who Cares A Lot(the greatest hits}, God Lives Underwater- Life In The So Called Space Age, Live- Secret Samahdi, and Danzig- 6:66 Satan's Child. None of these cd's say anything about being HDCD on the jewel case or in the booklet. The Danzig cd is the one that really surprised the hell out of me. He's not known for auidiophile quality heavy metal by any stretch of the imagination. Has anyone else found some cd's that are not marked?
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unmarked HDCD's
Many around, I love what HDCD does and am in constant search form them s/h.
I've got a two Patrica Barber Nightclub from Premonition, same recording session but with and without HDCD. The HDCD kills the non HDCD
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From what I remember Prof Keith Johnson saying once make sure though that your cdp/dac has a proper Pacfic Mircosonics Development PMD100 or PMD200 hdcd chip in it, otherwise it's just doing a dsp flag reco to the bring the light on and not doing what it should. 
Cheers George
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