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Re: HDCD vs SACD vs DVD-audio summary?

Posted by Presto (A) on April 3, 2007 at 10:00:31

In Reply to: Re: HDCD vs SACD vs DVD-audio summary? posted by tunenut on April 2, 2007 at 20:54:38:

Tunenut:

"DVD-Audio has information that can be read on a regular DVD player."

The distinction is really immaterial. DVD is DVD. All content in the VIDEO_TS folder is DVD-V, and all content in the AUDIO_TS folder is DVD-A, and you can have one or both folders on a single DVD. DVD-V's have DVD-V only. DVD-A's have AUDIO_TS folder but may also have VIDEO_TS folder for video content.

"But the real high resolution content can only be read on a DVD-A capable player. A DVD-A player can play 2 channels with 192 kHz/24 bit, while a DVD-V player cannot."

DVD-V is actually good for up to 24/96 uncompressed which is really cool. It's a shame more companies didn't take advantage of this. DVD-A is a P.I.T.A.

"Similarly a DVD-A player can play six channels of 96/24, while a DVD-V player cannot."

True - if everything is not compressed. But DVD-V can handle multi-channel hi-res if they use Meridian Lossless Packing (MLP).

I think.

Cheers,
Presto

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