drmatt wrote: > > Didn't know they owned dvd-a. > Meridian didn't own DVD-A. The DVD-A format was developed by Panasonic. It was licensed to the DVD Forum as an alternative to SACD which was a proprietary format developed and owned by Philips and Sony. There was a format war and as is not unusual, nobody won. The fact that it was based on the myth of the euphonic properties of hi rez audio didn't help.
> > What exactly was wrong with just providing PCM audio on a DVD!? > Depending on what you want to do, nothing. There is a DVD format for two channel 24/96 PCM that predates DVD-A. Discs and players for this format were in limited production and sale prior to the introduction of DVD-A. A lossless compression technique was desired because the DVD format lacked the data capacity required to put uncompressed hi rez multichannel PCM on a DVD disc. The methodology chose by the DVD forum was called MLP and is the piece that Meridian owned. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ arnyk's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=64365 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=105070 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
