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Dealers and consumers will sample next-generation audio and video technologies at this month's HiFi '98 show in Los Angeles, where suppliers will demonstrate DVD music discs, HDTV, and Dolby Digital satellite-TV broadcasts.
DVD-based music will be demonstrated in several formats at the Westin Hotel for the June 9-14 trade/consumer event. Marantz, Philips, and Sony, for example, plan to demonstrate the DVD-based Sony/Philips Super Audio CD format developed jointly by Sony and Philips. Sony and Philips didn't detail their plans at press time, but Marantz said it would demonstrate a two-channel program through a preproduction prototype Super Audio CD player. Pricing and delivery date were not announced.
For its part, Meridian plans to demonstrate DVD music conforming largely to the draft DVD Audio specifications released by the DVD Forum's working group-four (WG-4). Meridian will demonstrate multichannel 96kHz, 24-bit PCM material compressed through the application of proprietary Meridian Lossless Packing (MLP) technology, which Meridian is promoting to the WG-4 as a needed compression scheme to increase...