"but SACD uses a sort of hybrid format with one CD layer and one DVD-type layer, giving backwards compatibility"
Does this mean that SACD players can play CDs (I`d hope so anyway), or does it mean that a SACD would be playable on a normal CD player, although obviously without all the new stuff like improved bitrate and surround?
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I also saw and noticed that DVD-Audio is abbreviated as DVDA.
South Park fans will know this as the name of Matt & Trey`s band, the name coming from the pr0n term Doulbe V----a Double A--l (well, you get the idea -- I remember a discussion on IRC about how this would be possible, and it was eventually worked out).
RE: SACD
Simon Gardner(Harmless) posted this on Monday, 5th June 2000, 23:02
SACD players will play CDs, and they can have a CD layer too which allows them to be backwards-compatible with existing CD players. It`s not a compulsory part of the spec - only discs mastered with this in mind will be able to.
As I understand it, it`s kind of like dual-layer DVD; except that one of the layers uses the wider CD-spec track pitch.
