DVD-Audio
DVD-Audio release of Rumours by Fleetwood Mac | |
| Media type | Optical disc |
|---|---|
| Encoding | Meridian Lossless Packing or uncompressed LPCM |
| Capacity | up to 8.5 GB |
| Read mechanism | 640 nm wavelength semiconductor laser |
| Standard | DVD Books, Part 4, DVD-Audio Book, DVD Audio Recording Book |
| Developed by | DVD Forum |
| Usage | Audio storage |
| Extended from | |
| Extended to | High Fidelity Pure Audio Blu-ray |
| Released | 2000 |
DVD-Audio (commonly abbreviated as DVD-A) is a digital format for delivering high-fidelity audio content on a DVD. DVD-Audio uses most of the storage on the disc for high-quality audio and is not intended to be a video delivery format.
The standard was published in March 1999 and the first discs entered the marketplace in 2000. DVD-Audio was in a format war with Super Audio CD (SACD), and along with consumers' tastes tending towards downloadable music, these factors meant that neither high-quality disc achieved considerable market traction; DVD-Audio has been described as "extinct" by 2007. DVD-Audio remains a niche market but some independent online labels offer a wider choice of titles.