Blu-Ray, Dolby Digital + ,MLP ......possibly ?

[Manmc]

According to this link :

http://www.highfidelityreview.com/news/news.asp?newsnumber=17994615

...There's a chance that Mlp could be chosen for both Blu=Ray and HD-DVD.
Sounds much too good to be true but it would stop another format war ..

Manus

 

[rusinurbe]

Aren't Sony and Philips Blu-Ray advocates ?
Would that mean DVD-A would play on Sony and Philips Equipment ?

Excuse my technical ignorance on these matters

 

[bmoura]

According to this link :

http://www.highfidelityreview.com/news/news.asp?newsnumber=17994615

...There's a chance that Mlp could be chosen for both Blu=Ray and HD-DVD.
Sounds much too good to be true but it would stop another format war ..

Manus

They've selected MLP 2 Channel (not Multichannel) as well as DTS++. See http://www.dvdforum.org/27scmtg-resolution.htm for the HD-DVD resolution.

 

[Manmc]

They've selected MLP 2 Channel (not Multichannel)


Brian,
I think that may refer to the 'downmix' which is available with MLP.
HD-DVD will probably specify up to 8 channels of 192khz. Bluray hasn't been finalised yet.

Regards,
Manus

 

[John Kotches]

No Brian, that's a player spec.

The two-channel player spec can be met by either of (A) Including Downmix coefficients within the multi-channel stream (B) A seperate datastream which contains a dedicated two-channel mix.

Don't confuse the player specs (where stereo is a minimum requirement) with the media specs.

The intent was to make the implementation of a stereo only player easy.

Cheers,