AAC audio format to appear on DVD Audio discs

A few weeks ago the DVD Forum, the industry organization in charge of the DVD format,
decided that Microsoft's Windows Media Video 9 format would be one of the mandatory playback standards for high-definition DVD players (which we promise are on the way!). Now in a somewhat perverse twist of fate, the DVD Forum has selected the AAC format (which Apple uses for its iTunes store) to appear on DVD Audio discs. What's happened is that the DVD Forum wants all of the audio tracks on a DVD Audio disc to appear twice — once as regular high-fidelity DVD Audio files, and a second time as lower-fidelity tracks that can be played on a PC (since very few PCs have DVD Audio drives) — and AAC was selected to be the standard for these lower-fidelity tracks.

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