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DTS DVD-Audio's...

Posted by ILoveJazz (A) on September 21, 2005 at 20:58:25

In Reply to: Music Direct announces 4 new DVD-Audio's in latest newsletter posted by Teresa on September 21, 2005 at 11:59:55:

...are nothing new. In fact, I recently picked up a copy of Queen - The Game - on a DTS DVD-Audio for $15.99. If that release (which came out on DTS DVD-A two years ago) is typical, then only the multichannel tracks require a DVD-Audio player or a DTS-equipped playback system. The stereo tracks on DTS DVD-Audio's are in 96/24 LPCM format (like the Classic Records DAD's and the DVD-Video side of the Classic Records HDAD's), playable on DVD-Video players. (There is no Dolby Digital multichannel program at all whatsoever on any DTS DVD-Audio disc; thus, DVD-Video player owners who have neither a DTS decoder nor DVD-Audio playback capability cannot get multichannel at all - they're "stuck" with stereo.)

At least this approach gives regular DVD-Video player owners without DVD-A playback capability true Hi-Rez stereo audio and still keep the disc single-sided. Some other approaches for single-sided DVD-Audio's, like what UMG offers with many of its DVD-Audio's and the DVD side of its DualDiscs, offer both Hi-Rez multichannel and stereo tracks which require a DVD-Audio player to play but leave DVD-Video player owners with only a lossy Dolby Digital multichannel program (and sometimes a stereo program in lossy Dolby Digital).

Happy listening,
ILoveJazz

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