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DVD-Audio compatibility
DVD-Audio enables a very high audio quality, surround sound as well as addi-
tional features, which are not available on CD. The discs are outwardly identi-
cally to DVD-Video discs, however they have been developed to save audio
signals in high quality. Beside High-Resolution-Audio, DVD-Audio discs can
also contain video clips, still frames, text and menus for navigation. There is no
regional coding of DVD-Audio discs.
SACD compatibility
Super Audio CD (SACD) is a new, revolutionary audio format that offers high-
resolution audio in either two-channel stereo or multi-channel audio.
SACD is based on a new digital audio technology, so-called DSD (Direct Stre-
am Digital). DSD operates with 1-bit Delta-Sigma modulation, an 1-bit repro-
duction of the wave form with 2.8224 MHz sampling, in order to reproduce the
analogue original wave form and to produce a natural sound comprising all
nuances and the feeling of the original material.
The frequency response for SACDs is 100 kHz, the dynamic range is above
120 dB. Standard CDs do not include frequencies that are not audible by
humans even though the recordings contain such frequencies. Whereas the
SACD format has a sampling rate that is 64 times higher than the sampling rate
of CDs (2.8224 MHz compared with 44.1 kHz). This results in a faithfull repro-
duction of the original source material. Furthermore, the "Super Bit Mapping
Direct" process and the hybrid disc technology enable that most of the DSD
sound quality of SACDs is audible on customary CD players.
HDCD compatibility
HDCD (High Definition Compatible Digital) is a technology for coding respecti-
vely decoding audio data.
This technique shall improve the sound quality (more detailed reproduction)
and the dynamics of digital audio recordings, especially on CD or DVD, and
thus reduce existing disadvantages of conventionally coded CDs. According to
the developers the effect of a more detailed reproduction is among others rea-
ched by coding the audio data with a resolution of 20 bits instead of customary
16 bits.
Data transfer rates
The maximum speed for playing CDs is 4x. The corresponding data transfer
rate is 600 KB/sec. The maximum speed for playing DVDs is 2x with a data
transfer rate of 2700 KB/sec.
INTRODUCTION
Important note:
In this operation manual the expression “DVD” means DVD-Video and DVD-
Audio. If a function is only valid for a special kind of DVD disc, this will be indi-
cated.
