Posted by Biz on 08/25/05 20:43

Norman, many many operas have LPCM 2.0 sound, in fact all I have seen did.
I only know of a few that have surround sound(like DD 5.1 or DTS)
<normanstrong@comcast.net> wrote in message
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> I've been trying to imagine a good use for a 30GB disc. How about an
entire
> season of a 1 hour TV series? That's about 1000 minutes; just right for
> Blu-Ray. Of course, that's not what they're going to do with it. The one
> thing Hollywood doesn't want is a disc with a lot of time on it. They're
> perfectly happy to give you better and better resolution, extras, etc.,
but
> not more time.
>
> DVD would have been perfect for entire operas at full CD quality; 16 bit,
> 48K PCM is a DVD standard, but I'm not aware of any commercial release
using
> it.
>
> Norm Strong
>
>

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