DVD-Audio

Also known as DVD-A

DVD-Audio (commonly abbreviated as DVD-A) is a digital format for delivering high-fidelity audio content on a DVD. DVD-Audio uses most of the storage on the disc for high-quality audio and is not intended to be a video delivery format.

Key facts

Storage medium.name: DVD-Audio
Storage medium.logo: class=skin-invert|200px
Storage medium.image: DVD-Audio front view (from Museum of Obsolete Media).jpg
Storage medium.caption: DVD-Audio release of Rumours by Fleetwood Mac
Storage medium.type: Optical disc
Storage medium.encoding: Meridian Lossless Packing or uncompressed LPCM
Storage medium.capacity: up to 8.5 GB
Storage medium.read: 640 nm wavelength semiconductor laser
Storage medium.standard: DVD Books, Part 4, DVD-Audio Book, DVD Audio Recording Book
Storage medium.owner: DVD Forum
Storage medium.use: Audio storage
Storage medium.extended to: High Fidelity Pure Audio Blu-ray

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inception: 2000-00-00
equivalent class: purl.org/ontology/mo/DVDA
exact match: rs.tdwg.org/format/values/m047
P13411: Novosibirsk

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Audio specifications
Player compatibility
Preamplifier/surround-processor interface
Sound quality
Format variants
Copy protection
Authoring software
OS X
Windows
Linux/Apple/Windows
References
External links

The standard was published in March 1999 and the first discs entered the marketplace in 2000. DVD-Audio was in a format war with Super Audio CD (SACD), and along with consumers' tastes trending towards downloadable and streaming music, these factors meant that neither high-quality disc achieved considerable market traction; DVD-Audio has been described as "extinct" by 2007. DVD-Audio remains a niche market but some independent online labels offer a wider choice of titles.