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In Reply to: Re: When HD DVD & BluRay come out they will be able to do High Resolution Audio with High Resolution Video at the same t posted by GrandpaBobby on November 13, 2004 at 20:47:20:
Blu-Ray specs do not as yet allow for high resolution lossless uncompressed multichannel Audio, at least not according to the DVD-Association.
HD-DVD does - MLP has already been chosen as one of the Audio formats.Blu-Ray has made mutterings about some as yet undetermined Audio support at some time, but so far it is not in the proposals.
The reason DVD-A cannot play Video with the High Rez audio in it's Video clips at the moment is because the video clips are multiplexed into the Video_TS, and the hi res audio is in the Audio_TS which is a different partition on the disc.
It would be akin to running an app out of a Win98 partition at the same time as being in the XP partition.
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They have adopted at least one high rez format. It's in the DTS press release that was released about a week ago.
I missed that - thank you.Still, no MLP which means no backwards compatibility.
I hope Blu Ray gets the bums rush, and HD-DVD comes through.
Also, don't forget the Chinese also want to play - and they make the vast majority of players currently sold right now. Joe & Jane public want cheap, not good.
Plus Microsoft are also the only players in town with working HD video at the moment - it is already there in WMP 10.
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< < Still, no MLP which means no backwards compatibility. > >What is supposed to be compatible with what?
How are owners of DVD-Audio discs supposed to play them on a hypothetical Blu-Ray setup then if it will not support MLP?Or don't Sony care?
Sorry - silly question. Of course they don't.
I hope Blu-Ray dies - and fast.
Long live HD-DVD instead. Stick with the DVD Forum proposals - they write the damned specs. Sony are just selfish & self seeking tightwads.
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< < How are owners of DVD-Audio discs supposed to play them on a hypothetical Blu-Ray setup then if it will not support MLP? > >The two issues are not directly related. It's entirely up to the manufacturer whether a Blu-Ray player plays non-Blu-Ray formats, such as CDs, MP3s, DVD-Vs, DVD-As, SACDs, etc. Now it may be that if Blu-Ray makers were forced to pay for MLP, they would be more likely to support DVD-A, since it would involve less incremental pain.
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