Warner Music International (WMI), is set to launch an international DVD-Audio (DVD-A) campaign with 60 titles available from August 26th 2002 and further releases scheduled for later in the year, this in order to promote the new audio format a little more:
The recordings have been re-mixed from the original masters to take advantage of the superior Advanced Resolution surround and stereo sound quality now possible with DVD-Audio. All titles also feature a Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound mix which is playable on all DVD-Video players as well as PS-2, DVD ROMs and DVD enabled X-Box players. |
Major albums in the initial campaign include Fleetwood Mac's Rumours, Eagles Hotel California, Doobie Brothers Captain & Me, The Band The Last Walzt, and Daniel Barenboim's Beethoven Symphonies Nos 1 & 2. Phase two of the campaign from September includes recent high profile albums such as Linkin Park Reanimation and Alanis Morissette Under Rug Swept as well as classic titles from R.E.M, Neil Young and Jackson Browne.
All these DVD-A titles will be released world-wide (excluding US) at the same dealer price as Superstar/Super Deluxe CDs in each country which would allow them to retail at the same price as top range CDs.
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Source: mi2n.com
