What Does DVD-Audio (DVD-A) Mean?
DVD-Audio (DVD-A) is a digital audio format that is committed to DVD storage. It is similar to compact disc, but with much greater capacity for higher quality and additional space for storing digital media. The DVD Forum (a consortium of technology business leaders, including Hitachi, Thomson, Sony, Toshiba and Time Warner, among others) released the DVD-Audio specification in March of 1999.
Techopedia Explains DVD-Audio (DVD-A)
CD audio is capable of a sampling rate of 44,100 samples per second, while DVD-Audio’s sampling rate is more than twice that. Further, dual-layer DVD-Audio has twice the sampling rate of standard DVD-Audio.
