DVD-Audio vs. DVD-Video

Posted by Hai Ng [IP: 207.86.1.138] on March 02, 1999 at 01:17:10
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In Reply to: DVD-Audio vs. DVD-Video posted by Fredrik Lundberg on February 25, 1999 at 02:44:25:

:Can someone explain the difference between the movie music in DD/DTS 5.1 and the future DVD-Audio? Is there any DVD-Video "movies" with just music available?

DVD-Audio gives you a 74 minute digital audio only playback with 6 full bandwidth channels at 96kHz/24-bit digital sound using MLP technology. It can contain a DVD-Video track but they apparently won't do much of that to prevent DVD-Audio from bring a rental format...a marketing decision. It will contain much more data and much less compression than DD or DTS encoded sound on DVD-Video, it is also supposed to be lossless compression.

DVD-Audio discs can contain titles, graphics, lyrics, etc. but you will need a Universal player (player that plays both DVD-Video and DVD-Audio) as most DVD-Audio players will probably not have a video out.

There are no discs out there now I believe as the standards are being finalized since Sony has their own little standard for audio only material.

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nghai

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