DVD-Audio
Sign in to saveDVD-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
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- 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
via Wikipedia infobox
Article
12 sectionsContents
- 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
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.
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.