Enhanced LCPM Stereo

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I haven't been keeping up with things. I bought a DVD-A player a few years
back and I enjoy the occasional DVD-A. I have yet to purchase anything yet
in the Dual Disc format and there is an upcoming release by Sony:
http://www.fiona-apple.com/ Fiona Apple - Extraordinary Machine which is
using the Enhanced LCPM Stereo on its DVD side. I understand this to be a
format that is generally playable by DVD players that can handle the higher
resolution formats? Is that correct? Does 'enhanced' denote that it is of
a resolution that will not be compatible with standard DVD players at all?



Any information or resources would be appreciated. I'm not finding much. I
have seen that Sony is using this instead of DVD-A on it's releases, but I'm
finding little else really.


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Kalman Rubinson <kr4@nyu.edu> wrote:
> On 26 Sep 2005 01:44:21 GMT, "Fastfwd" <fastfwd01@hotmail.com> wrote:

> >I haven't been keeping up with things. I bought a DVD-A player a few years
> >back and I enjoy the occasional DVD-A. I have yet to purchase anything yet
> >in the Dual Disc format and there is an upcoming release by Sony:
> >http://www.fiona-apple.com/ Fiona Apple - Extraordinary Machine which is
> >using the Enhanced LCPM Stereo on its DVD side. I understand this to be a
> >format that is generally playable by DVD players that can handle the higher
> >resolution formats? Is that correct? Does 'enhanced' denote that it is of
> >a resolution that will not be compatible with standard DVD players at all?
> >
> >
> >
> >Any information or resources would be appreciated. I'm not finding much. I
> >have seen that Sony is using this instead of DVD-A on it's releases, but I'm
> >finding little else really.

> "Enhanced" implies a high resolution format but is, in fact, a
> completely uninformative term since it is used for everything from
> 16/48 and up without discrimination.

So, it means PCM but not lossless compressed (PPCM/MLP) , and at higher
sampling rate or bit-depth than Redbook (16/44)? DVD players should have no
problem playing it, unless it has a problem with the thickness of the disc.