In a press statement, the DVD-Audio council has today announced its members will release seventy new titles on the format before year-end. Yes, you read that right. Not seven or seventeen, but seventy!
DVD-Audio Council participants include: Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group, BMG, J Records, Silverline Records, Arista Records, The Atlantic Group, Elektra Entertainment Group, Capitol, Warner Music Latina, Virgin, Angel/Blue Note, EMI Latina, Rhino, 5.1 Entertainment Group, RCA, Reprise, Geffen Records, Interscope, A&M, Island Def Jam Music Group, Lost Highway Records, Mercury, MCA Nashville, Motown Records, Universal Classics, Universal Records, Universal Music Enterprises, Universal Music Latino, Verve Music Group, Warner Bros. Records., Myutopia Recordings, AIX Records, DTS Entertainment and EMI Recorded Music.
Non-label members include Meridian Audio, Dolby Laboratories and Panasonic (MEI). The DVD-Audio Council serves as a complete resource for all press, technical and marketing information related to the DVD-Audio format in the United States and Europe. The council’s mission is to educate hardware and software retailers to the benefits and features of DVD-Audio while simultaneously promoting consumer awareness of this evolutionary format.
According to the DVD-Audio council, all the forthcoming releases feature 5.1 multi-channel tracks as well as video and concert footage, artist interviews, on-screen displays of lyrics, liner notes, menus, photo galleries, and web enabled capabilities.
The statement continues: “The DVD-Audio format is fast becoming the next dominant packaged music format and the future successor to compact disc. Exponential sales of DVD products, sustained consumer interest in all aspects of the DVD format including on-screen bonus features and rapidly increasing awareness of the benefits of surround sound and multi-channel music are driving interest in this value added, feature laden format. DVD-Audio provides the most significant audio enhancements to packaged music delivery.”
Future releases (including those going on general release today) include:
October 28th
- R.E.M. – ‘In Time Best of R.E.M.’ – Warner Brothers Records
- Rat Pack – ‘Live And Swingin’: The Rat Pack Live At The Villa Venice’ – Reprise
November 4th
- Stephanie Osborne – ‘Victorian Christmas’ – Silverline Records
- Queensrяche – ‘Tribe’ – Silverline Records
- Everclear – ‘So Much For The Afterglow’ – DTS Entertainment
- Medeski, Martin and Wood – ‘Uninvisible’ – DTS Entertainment
- Kitaro – ‘Best of Silk Road’ – Domo Records
- Osiris – ‘Out of Order’ – Myutopia Recordings
November 18th
- Luther Vandross – ‘Dance With My Father’ – J Records
- Wyclef Jean – ‘The Preacher’s Son’ – J Records
- Rod Stewart – ‘It Had To Be You… The Great American Songbook’ – J Records
- Foo Fighters – ‘One By One’ – RCA
- Carl Perkins – ‘Jet Propelled’ – Silverline Records
- Living Colour – ‘Collideoscope’ – Silverline Records
- The Mavericks – ‘The Mavericks’ – Silverline Records
- Robert Cray Band – ‘Time Will Tell’ – Silverline Records
- Claudio Abbado – ‘Beethoven: Symphony Nos. 1 and 2’ – Universal Music Group
- Claudio Abbado – ‘Beethoven: Symphony Nos. 3 and 8’ – Universal Music Group
- Claudio Abbado – ‘Beethoven: Symphony Nos. 4 and 7’ – Universal Music Group
- Claudio Abbado – ‘Beethoven: Symphony Nos. 5 and 6’ – Universal Music Group
- Claudio Abbado – ‘Beethoven: Symphony No.9’ – Universal Music Group
- Ryan Adams – ‘Gold’ – Universal Music Group
- Celcilia Bartoli – ‘The Vivaldi Album’ – Universal Music Group
- Riccardo Chailly – ‘Mahler 8th Symphony’ – Universal Music Group
- Renee Fleming – ‘Renee Fleming’ – Universal Music Group
- Valery Gergiev – ‘Tchaikovsky: 6th Symphony’ – Universal Music Group
- Diana Krall – ‘The Look of Love’ – Universal Music Group
- Diana Krall – ‘When I Look in Your Eyes’ – Universal Music Group
- Christian Thielemann – ‘Orff: Carmina Burana’ – Universal Music Group
- Flaming Lips – ‘Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots’ – Warner Brothers Records
- The Dale Spalding Band – ‘Downtown’ – AIX Records
- Calamari – ‘Looking Up’ – AIX Records
- Ian Whitcomb – ‘Turned On Alley’ – AIX Records
- Cell One: Poet Named Life – ‘Poet Name Life presents The Sound Proof Wall’ – Myutopia Recordings
- Cell Two: Motiv8 – ‘From Hip Hop to Drum and Bass’ – Myutopia Recordings
- Cell Three: Daddy Kev – ‘Penchant for Bug*ery’ – Myutopia Recordings
- Cell Four: Correctional Facilities – ‘Correctional Facilities’ – Myutopia Recordings
- Cell Five: The Grouch – ‘My Baddest B*tches’ – Myutopia Recordings
- Cell Six: The Secret – ‘Feel It All The Time’ – Myutopia Recordings
- Cell Seven – ‘Camarillo Blues Triangle’ – Myutopia Recordings
- Cell Eight – ‘DJ Haul and Mason’ – Myutopia Recordings
- Cell Nine: RF – ‘Inferno’ – Myutopia Recordings
- Sound In Color presents – ‘MU.SIC Pixelated Pulse’ – Myutopia Recordings
November 25th
- Santana – ‘Supernatural’ – Arista Records
- Santana – ‘Shaman’ – Arista Records
- Outkast – ‘Stankonia’ – Arista Records
- Usher – ‘8701’ – Arista Records
December 2nd
- Alicia Keys – ‘Songs In A Minor’ – J Records
- Grant Geissman Quintet – ‘There and Back Again’ – AIX Records
- Steve Huffsteter Big Band – ‘Gathered Around’ – AIX Records
December 9th
- Blues Traveler – ‘Truth Be Told’ – Silverline Records
- Steve Forbert – ‘From The Front Row… Live!’ – Silverline Records
- Teddy Pendergrass – ‘From The Front Row… Live!’ – Silverline Records
- Neil Young – ‘American Stars N Bars’ – Warner Brothers Records
- Neil Young – ‘Greendale’ – Warner Brothers Records
- Neil Young – ‘Hawks And Doves’ – Warner Brothers Records
- Neil Young – ‘On the Beach’ – Warner Brothers Records
- Neil Young – ‘Re-act-or’ – Warner Brothers Records
December 16th
- Peter Frampton – ‘Frampton Comes Alive! ’ – Universal Music Group
- Steely Dan – ‘Gaucho’ – Universal Music Group
- George Strait – ‘Honkytonkville’ – Universal Music Group
- Shania Twain – ‘Up!’ – Universal Music Group
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