DVD Audio update

Article Abstract:

The future of a DVD format for audio may not be determined for some time. Questions to be answered include whether there is a need for surround music without video and the number of channels required. Dolby Laboratories and Delos International have issued a multipurpose demonstration DVD.

Planning, Sound recording and reproduction

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Sony's simpler sampling

Article Abstract:

Sony has adapted the 1940s-era delta modulation recording technology to create Direct Stream Digital (DSD), a potentially viable alternative to the pulse-code modulation (PCM) signal sampling method used to create most compact disc recordings. DSD's advantages over PCM are outlined.

Innovations, Sound recording industry, Recording industry, Sampling (Acoustical engineering), Pulse code modulation

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The great DVD debate

Article Abstract:

Philips and Sony unveiled their DVD format at the Jan 1995 Winter Consumer Electronics Show, and observers were impressed with the DVD's picture quality, CD-type size, and data compression standard. However, Toshiba and Time Warner produced a competing DVD format later in Jan 1995.

Toshiba Corp., Consumer electronics industry, Time Warner Inc., TWX, Philips Gloeilampenfabrieken N.V.

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