Posted by musicman on 12/27/06 23:08

Temsonic wrote:
> "musicman" <stradlinizzy@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:1167173602.583789.252450@73g2000cwn.googlegroups.com...
> >
> > kim wrote:
> >> "musicman" <stradlinizzy@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> >> news:1167153938.805359.72040@i12g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> >> > recently recorded a few old analog stereo music tapes to my DVD
> >> > recorder's internal storage drive, using the audio in stereo jacks from
> >> > the tape deck
> >> > the transfer dub sounds pretty good through the TV stereo speakers
> >> > question- what resolution is this recording at ?
> >> > it's an RCA DVD recorder, that can record onto a DVD blank in -R or +R
> >> > formats, or to the internal storage itself inside the unit
> >> > is this equivalent to a WAV file, MP3 file, or DVD-A file ?
> >> > I'm thinking it's the same as DVD-A, but not sure as there is nothing
> >> > about it in the owner's manual.
> >>
> >> DVD-A is 5.1 channel WAV so there is no way it could be that. Most likely
> >> it's 2.0 channel AC-3.
> >>
> >> (kim)
> >
> > not all DVD-A is 5.1 channel- I have factory releases of early Triumph
> > concert in California that was remastered to DVD, and it has both
> > stereo 2.0 and 5.1 options
> >
> > there's a lot of variations of DVD-A, although the most famous and
> > respected is the 5.1 surround sound version
> >
> > see it here:
> >
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD-A#Audio_specifications.07UNIQ2f8117ea48f0850c-nowiki-0000000D-QINU2.07UNIQ2f8117ea48f0850c-nowiki-0000000E-QINU
> >
> > stereo 2.0 can be anywhere from 44khz to 192 khz, and 16-20-24 bit
> > rate
> >
> > I'm just wondering what the resolution is for these recordings I made-
> > I know they are stereo
> >
> > what's AC-3 ??
>
> AC-3 is Dolby Digital. I've never had a stand alone DVD recorder but I would
> have thought it unlikely your DVD recorder is encoding the recordings as
> Dolby Digital. It would be phenomenally unlikely it's recording it as DVD-A.
> Everything similar I've used such as recording TV to hard drive via a PC
> Freeview card and capturing analogue video onto PC always records the audio
> in some form of MPEG compression. A friend of mine has a cheap supermarket
> DVD recorder without a hard drive which also records the audio as MPEG when
> he records old videos onto disc via the Scart socket. If you burnt your
> recording to a DVD and played it on a PC, programs like PowerDVD will tell
> you what format and bitrate the audio is.


OK- I played 3 classic rock tapes into the DVD recorder, and recorded
them at the "best" speed (i.e. fastest speed)- then played them back-
they sound freakin' awesome, even through the tiny TV speakers !

so while I was playing them back via the built in DVD HDD, I hit
"info", then scrolled over to this speaker icon

it said DOLBY DIGITAL 2.0

now, what is the resolution/bit rate of DD 2.0 ??

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