This white paper presents the design challenges and solutions for the rise of new audio formats for high-definition DVD standards. It describes an overview of high-definition DVD, the ...

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 ...

The advent of next-generation high-definition DVD players, based on the Blu-ray Disc and HD DVD formats, presents significant design complexities for original equipment manufacturers (OEMs). While ...

It was 20 years ago this month that consumer electronics companies Sony and Toshiba launched a new home video format called Digital Video Disc, or DVD. The format promised a four-fold increase in ...

San Francisco – Feeling the need for a promotional campaign that is ‘more focused’ on the DVD-Audio format, members of eight companies and organizations announced the formation of a DVD-Audio ...

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 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 ...

We have come a long way in consumer electronics and along the way we have had our share of formats, technologies and the acronyms to help us to remember them by. We're going to take a look at some of ...

Click to viewThe Blu-Ray vs. HD DVD battle seems as old as time itself. Being tech savvy consumers, we’ve heard the two formats are, to the end user, pretty identical. Both are capable of equal ...

The appeal to consumers was supposed to be better and more lifelike sound quality. The appeal to music companies was supposed to be a new digital format that consumers couldn't Napster-ize or cheaply ...

Feeling the need for a promotional campaign that is “more focused” on the DVD-Audio format, members of eight companies and organizations announced the formation of a DVD-Audio Marketing Council during ...