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In Reply to: Re: Weird audio group DVDA playback question posted by Charles Hansen on February 27, 2007 at 09:03:01:
"(In case you didn't figure it out yet, DVD-A was designed by idiots. All they had to do was release music-only albums in 96/24 on DVD-Video. There was never a need for a new format, and they could have beaten SACD before it was born.)"Could not agree more and they could have included a DD 5.1 track with it too for the masses who don't care about quality and want to make sure all the channels get used. Instead they bombed out and then invented DualDisc to cause problems with hardware and have a CD-like layer that won't play in everything.
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But they do include Dolby Digital 5.1 tracks on all the DVD-Audio discs I am familiar with. Typically if your DVD player (assuming it is one that handles DVD-Audio) is set to Audio default (as the two different brands I have owned do)you simply need to go into your set-up menu and change the default to video then you can access the Dolby Digital tracks. The Classic HDAD provide a two sided DVD one encoded for Dolby Digital and one encoded for MLP Lossless (DVD-Audio).
< < The Classic HDAD provide a two sided DVD one encoded for Dolby Digital and one encoded for MLP Lossless (DVD-Audio). > >No, that's not correct. The DVD-Video side had 96/24 uncompressed PCM, not Dolby Digital.
Yes of course you are right about the HDAD disc not having Dolby Digital. I meant DVD-Video at 24/96. My bad.
So - that's not news at all. I think the original point was not needing a new format and hence a new player. Many (but not all)audiophiles (which is a small niche market) prefer stereo vs. multi-channel. Many (but not all) non-audiophiles are thrilled to have all the channels utilized (and that's a bigger market). Then there's the issue of navigating menus authored different ways. Many avg. (non-audiophile) customers think a concert DVD-V is the same as DVD-A (I've heard it at places like Best Buy and Circuit City over a dozen times and even from people working in the store). Had they gone that route w/o the new format they certainly would have a good shot at more hi-rez. The more formats a machine plays generally translates into more disc reading errors. Having a hi-rez DVD-V would have been nice and perhaps could have served to educate the avg. public on hearing compressed vs. non-compressed music.
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