Chris says:

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I will also be interested in seeing what happens with audio only formats such as SACD-2 and DVD-Audio, er, DD lossless. DVD-Audio format had a portion for DVD-V to display still shots... I wonder what the plan is going to be for Dolby Digital Lossless (DVD-Audio) on Blu Ray... Now that there is agreement for mandatory support of DVD-Audio on Blu Ray, what can we expect from DVD-Audio 2 (Dolby Digital Lossless)? We need to standardize multichannel audio now that we have room for as many channels and bandwidth as needed. No more limitations from the DVD format. I will be anxious to see what develops.

DVD-Audio and SA-CD are media format specifications. DD Lossless is a compression algorithm that can be used in more areas than just optical disc formats. You need to stop portraying things such that DVD-Audio == Dolby Lossless.

DVD-AUdio doesn't have a DVD-Video portion, the slide show is part of the datastream in the .AOB files.

As far as including backward support for DVD-Audio, certainly all of the ingredients are now available to do so, but that doesn't make it a guarantee to happen. It would be silly not to include such capability, but that hasn't stopped companies from making short sighted decisions in the past. I suspect that inclusion of DVD-Audio media support will be left up to the player's manufacturer rather than mandated and that most will indeed include this capability.


As far as surround standards implementation for surround music, it would be nice to have a standard emerge. As it stands, without standards odd things occur.

Cheers,

Surround Music Fan/Computer Geek/Curmudgeon in training.
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