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RSS dvd audioIntroduction to DVD Recordable (DVD-R) What is DVD Recordable?
White Paper Similar in concept to Compact Disc Recordable (CD-R), DVD-R is a write-once medium that can contain any type of information normally stored on mass produced DVD discs - video, audio, images, data files, multimedia programs, and so on. [02 Sep 2008]
Toward a Rational Basis for Multichannel Music Recording
White Paper The DVD-Audio standard will include multi-channel uncompressed PCM audio. Although we have 30 (or more) years of experience with recording, mixing, and reproducing stereo, as an industry we have relatively little experience with multi-channel music... [03 Jul 2008]
Music Recording in the Age of Multi-Channel Mastering
White Paper The DVD-Video 1.0 standard allows a disk that has little or no video on it, but can carry multiple channels of PCM audio. This allows us to provide an enhanced spatial experience by using more channels than the traditional stereo recording. [03 Jul 2008]
Publishing in the Age of DVD
White Paper After several years of intense development and cross-industry cooperation among consumer electronics companies, computer manufacturers, and the entertainment industry, the DVD format has arrived — and with it a new era of consumer entertainment. [03 Jul 2008]
Making the Most of Audio Source Tracks for DVD
White Paper Some Guidelines from Dolby Laboratories.These guidelines are for use in the preparation and creation of Dolby Digital soundtracks for DVD from the most commonly encountered film and music soundtrack formats. [03 Jul 2008]
Audio Source Tracks for DVD: Notes for Producers
White Paper These guidelines briefly describe the preparation and creation of Dolby Digital soundtracks for DVD-Video from the most common formats. Film and music soundtracks are prepared in a variety of formats, including mono, stereo, matrix-encoded, and... [03 Jul 2008]
Advice to DVD-Audio Software and Hardware Manufacturers
White Paper DVD-Audio has ability to deliver signals containing high frequencies, e.g.up to about 100kHz (when used at the sampling rate of 192kHz). In cases where high frequency signals with very large amplitude like those of a test purpose disc are presented... [03 Jul 2008]
Surround Sound Past, Present, and Future
White Paper This will all change with the arrival of the DVD-Audio disc. Glorious multichannel audio via the DVD-Audio disc is well on its way to bringing about a true revolution in the way music is reproduced and enjoyed in the home. [03 Jul 2008]
Marking MLP Lossless Packing Soundtracks on DVD-A
White Paper MLP Lossless Packing requires approximately half the data required by PCM audio, effectively doubling the usable space on DVD-A discs. MLP Lossless is the data reduction technology required by the DVD-A format. [03 Jul 2008]
Some Guidelines for Producing Music in 5.1 Channel Surround
White Paper What’s new: stereo transitions to 5.1 channels DVD offers, for the first time, a practical means to deliver discrete high quality multichannel audio to the consumer. The concept of 5.1 multichannel audio originated in the film and cinema world, so... [03 Jul 2008]
Dolby Trademark Use in Digital Broadcasts
White Paper This document therefore recommends a simpler approach for on-screen indication of the audio format than the one used for package media such as DVD. Dolby Digital is the audio coding format for ATSC, and an optional format for DVB, making it... [03 Jul 2008]
Recommended Demo Material for Pro Logic II
White Paper Although practically any material in stereo or encoded in Dolby Surround sounds good in Pro Logic II, certain CD tracks or DVD chapters produce a more dramatic effect. Pro Logic II is a new Dolby Laboratories technology that produces surround sound... [03 Jul 2008]
Surround Sound Technologies
White Paper Next came discrete 5.1-channel Dolby Digital, also used first in movie theatres, and now brought into the home via DVD and DVD-ROM, DTV (digital TV), laser discs, digital cable, and satellite systems. [03 Jul 2008]
Virtual 3-D Overview
White Paper The source is 5.1 channel digital audio from a Digital Versatile Disc (DVD). In this overview, Virtual 3-D Surround is a system that uses digital signal processing and two speakers to create an experience that is very close to the 5.1 channel... [03 Jul 2008]
Panasonic Unites DVD-R, DVD-RAM Formats in a Single Drive, Offering the Best of Both Worlds
White Paper Leveraging its expertise in write-once and rewritable technology as well as its experience in developing its dual laser/dual lens pick-up, Matsushita recently unveiled the world's first DVD-R/DVD-RAM drive, which will be marketed under its... [03 Jul 2008]
