A high-resolution audio format approved by the DVD Forum in 1999. Designed as an optical disc format with higher-quality sound than a CD, DVD-Audio never caught on. Neither did SACD, a competing ...

Original Publish Date: 12/23/01 - Much of the content in this article has been addressed via hardware, but we keep it live for archival purposes. Software selection however is still the big issue ...

A few weeks ago the DVD Forum, the industry organization in charge of the DVD format, decided that Microsoft's Windows Media Video 9 format would be one of the mandatory playback standards for ...

MLP is core technology in DVD-A, DualDisc and HD-DVD International CES, Las Vegas, NV, January 6, 2005– The British-based international leader in digital audio and video for home theater and music ...

When you look at the excitement that Dolby Digital and dts 5.1-channel soundtracks from DVDs can generate played over a good home theater system, it’s not surprising that Sony/Philips and the DVD ...

A hybrid dual-layer version of DVD-Audio (DVD-A) that can play on both CD and DVD hardware is expected to hit the market in the next six months. By Billboard Staff A hybrid dual-layer version of ...

Say you’re having a party and you want to have enough music ready for the whole night. Sure, you might have an iPod or digital audio player that you could hook to your stereo, but do you really want ...

Old DVDs are laying around your home and you would love to extract the audio from these discs, but the right tools are not in your possession. The question is, then, what does one do in a situation ...

I. Background on surround sound The first commercially multichannel sound formats were developed in the early 1950s for movie theaters. Even when TV, radio, and phonographs were still mono, some ...

Extract audio streams from Blu-ray, DVD-Audio and DVD-Video discs and save them as OGG, MP3, Wave or FLAC files. DVD Audio Extractor can also demux audio streams directly to mlp, pcm, mpa, ac3 or dts ...

[Editor’s note: The MPAA and most media companies argue that you can’t legally copy or convert commercial DVDs for any reason. We (and others) think that, if you own a DVD, you should be able to ...

It has been some time since I wrote the controversial, but much needed article titled, "DVD Audio & SACD The Royal Scam". I did not write this article to bash new technologies, nor to be a ...