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Re: But what about the difference between lossy and lossless

The max data rate for DVD (Audio or Video) is 9.8 Mbs. If you use uncompressed 96/24 it will use around 6.4 Mbs, leaving only 3.4 MBs for the video. This can be done, but the video quality is marginal. There were a couple of Chesky discs like this, one by Chuck Mangione and one by Sara K (I think).

But DVD-A doesn't solve this problem. It just sidesteps it by only including still video instead of full-motion video.

The only thing DVD-A did (besides confusing the hell out of the entire marketplace with a stupid unnecessary format and stupid menus and stupid options) was to add lossless compression so that you could get 192/24 stereo or 96/24 surround sound. Neither of these mattered one whit. The people with surround systems are perfectly happy with Dolby Digital, while there wasn't any hardware on the recording side to take advantage of the 192 kHz sample rate for hardcore audiophiles.

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