Detailed Information Of The HD DVD Audio Specs

HD DVD is one of the latest technologies in the optical disc format industry. As a matter of fact, it is considered as the “next generation” optical disc format and is currently engaged in a battle for high definition optical disc “format war” with the Blu Ray disc. The two high definition optical disc formats are primarily developed and designed to replace the standard DVD format that is currently the dominant optical disc format most by numerous countries these days.

HD DVD has a much better quality than that of the standard DVD. In terms of viewing experience, HD DVD provides the consumers with “in depth” audio clarity and high definition video viewing. High definition videos provide a much better image quality. The quality of high definition videos that HD DVD provides are much more detailed compared to the standard DVD. High definition videos of HD DVD formats are two times the resolution that of the standard DVD formats. And its HD DVD audio specs are also much better than the standard DVD format.

However, developers and designers of HD DVD did not only focus on the video quality. They also enhanced and further improve the HD DVD audio specs in order to provide a much better and much clearer audio quality. HD DVD is capable of encoding audio files up to 24-bit per 192 kHz for two audio channels and is also capable of eight channels of 24-bit per 96 kHz encoding. This is why the HD DVD provides a much better audio quality than that of the standard DVD. Most of the new “big budgeted” films that are released these days are only mastered in 24-bit per 48 kHz while ordinary movies are commonly encoded on 16-bit per 48 kHz.

All of the HD DVD players that are available on the market these days are required to read the standard HD DVD audio specs that are “linear or uncompressed PCM”, “Dolby Digital AC-3”, “Dolby Digital EX”, “DTS”, “Dolby Digital Plus” and “Dolby TrueHD” formats. Additional audio tracks, if provided, are usually saved in any of the formats that are previously mentioned, or they are stored in one of the optional codecs of HD DVD which are “DTS-HD High Resolution Audio” and “DTS-HD Master Audio” codecs.

If you want to fully experience that the HD DVD audio specs provides, HD DVD developers provide “content producers” a selection of linear PCM, Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD Master Audio formats. And because of the high bandwidth requirements of the “linear PCM”, the “in depth” clarity that the HD DVD audio specs provide are delivered in the Dolby True-HD format.