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The DTS-CD, DTS Audio CD or 5.1 Music Disc (official name) is an audio Compact Disc that contains music in surround sound format. It is a predecessor of DVD Audio. Technically, it conforms to the Red Book standard, except for the way the music is encoded on the CD. Where regular CD's store the music as linear PCM, the DTS-CD stores music using the DTS format. This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...
Surround sound is the concept of expanding the spatial imaging of audio playback from one dimension (mono/Left-Right) to two or three dimensions. ...
The DVD-Audio logo. ...
The CDDA trademark Red Book is the standard for audio CDs (Compact Disc Digital Audio system, or CDDA). ...
PCM is an initialism which can have different meanings: Phase Change Material Pulse-code modulation, a way to digitally encode signals representing sound and their video counterparts Potential Cancer Marker Communist Party of Mexico Plug Compatible Manufacturer Power-train control module, a computer in a car which controls the car...
DTS (formerly known as Digital Theater Systems), owned by DTS, Inc. ...
As opposed to other surround formats, such as SACD and DVD audio, which usually requires a specialized player, a DTS-CD is compatible with most, if not all, standard CD players with a digital (S/PDIF) output, only requiring a receiver that can decode DTS tracks. Super Audio CD (SACD) is a new audio recording format aimed at providing higher fidelity audio reproduction than the compact disc. ...
The DVD-Audio logo. ...
S/PDIF or S/P-DIF stands for Sony/Philips Digital Interface Format, also IEC 958 type II, part of IEC-60958. ...
AV receivers or audio-video receivers are one of the many consumer electronics components typically found within a home theatre system. ...
| Audio format | | Analog | Phonograph cylinder (1870s) | Gramophone record (1895) | Reel-to-reel audio tape recording (1940s) | Vinyl record (1948) | Compact Cassette (1963) | 8-track cartridge (1964) | Microcassette (1969) | Elcaset (1976) It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with audio storage. ...
The earliest method of recording and reproducing sound was on phonograph cylinders. ...
The Beatles Magical Mystery Tour (1967) as a 33 â
LP vinyl record A gramophone record (also phonograph record, or simply record) is an analogue sound recording medium consisting of a flat disc with an inscribed modulated spiral groove starting near the periphery and ending near the center of the disc. ...
A reel-to-reel tape recorder (Sony TC-630), typical of those which were once common audiophile objects. ...
The Beatles Magical Mystery Tour (1967) as a 33 â
LP vinyl record A gramophone record (also phonograph record, or simply record) is an analogue sound recording medium consisting of a flat disc with an inscribed modulated spiral groove starting near the periphery and ending near the center of the disc. ...
The Compact Cassette, often referred to as audio cassette, cassette tape, cassette, or simply a tape. ...
An 8-track cartridge The 8-track cartridge is a magnetic tape technology for audio storage, popular from the mid-1960s to the early 1980s. ...
A microcassette in front of a compact audio cassette. ...
Elcaset was a short-lived audio format created by Sony in 1976. ...
| | Digital | Compact Disc (1982) | Digital Audio Tape (1987) | MiniDisc (1991) | Digital Compact Cassette (1992) | 5.1 Music Disc (1997) | Super Audio CD (1999) | DVD-Audio (2000) This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...
A 90-minute DAT cartridge, size compared to a AAA (LR03) battery. ...
// Overview The MiniDisc logo A MiniDisc (MD) is a disc-based data storage device intended for storage of digitized audio. ...
The DCC logo was inspired by that of the original Compact Cassette Digital Compact Cassette (DCC) was a short-lived sound recording format introduced by Philips and Matsushita late 1992. ...
Super Audio CD (SACD) is a read-only optical audio disc aimed at providing much higher fidelity digital audio reproduction than the compact disc. ...
The DVD-Audio logo. ...
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