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Another red herring

<< But until SACD and DVD-A came along, we had to settle for what LPs. had to offer. We will take DVD-A over DTS, and we will take DTS over DD. >>

The maximum data rate for audio on DVD-Video is specified as 6.144 Mbps. It can be sampled at 48 or 96 kHz with 16, 20, or 24 bits/sample. There can be from 1 to 8 channels. So there are actually lots of options for uncompressed surround-sound:

8 channels of 48/16 = 6.144 Mbps
6 channels of 48/20 = 5.760 Mbps
5 channels of 48/24 = 5.760 Mbps
4 channels of 96/16 = 6.144 Mbps
3 channels of 96/20 = 5.760 Mbps
2 channels of 96/24 = 4.608 Mbps

It's not quite as good as DVD-A offered by including MLP, but it would have been better to have a format that actually survived instead of a pipedream.


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