DVD Forum, the organization that controls the development of official DVD standards, has approved a new format called DualDisc. The format is aimed to compete against the SACD audio disc format developed by Sony and Philips.
DualDisc is basically a disc that has a DVD-Audio content on the other side of the disc and regular audio CD on the other side of the disc. The aim is to create a format that would allow record labels to produce DVD-Audio compatible discs, that provide far better audio quality than regular CDs, while maintaining the backwards compatibility to traditional CD players.
Source: HighFidelityReview.com
Source: HighFidelityReview.com
