DVD-Audio Council Hails Format's Fast Growth
LOS ANGELES, Calif. (Mar. 03, 2004) --
The DVD-Audio Format is seeing exponential growth, according to the DVD-Audio Council, an industry group composed of record companies and hardware manufacturers (see list below). It says more than 160 DVD-Audio player models are available from 35-plus manufacturers, and more than 14 million players are already in the market. This number far outstrips the sales of competing audio formats, with player sales up 500% from the previous year, the Council says. In addition, an estimated two million computer-based DVD-Audio players have shipped, from companies such as Creative Labs and InterVideo. Additionally, DVD-A discs play on all 200+ million DVD-Video players plus PS2 and Xbox consoles, the Council says.[an error occurred while processing this directive]Title availability has increased dramatically, and now is well over 700 titles, with a significant number of albums being released over the next few months, according to the Council. A list of recent and upcoming titles follows.
February
Peter Frampton - Frampton Comes Alive - UME: IGA | A&M
Marvin Gaye - Let's Get It On - UME: Uni/Motown | Motown
Aaron Neville - Nature Boy: The Standards Album - Verve | Verve
David Sanborn - timeagain - Verve | Verve
Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells 2003- Warner Brothers Records
March
Grant Geissman Quintet - There and Back Again - AIX Records
Slaughter - Then and Now - Silverline Records
Steely Dan - Gaucho - UME: MCA | MCA Records
Keaton Simons - Drive Away - AIX Records
Surf City Allstars - I Get Surround - AIX Records
London Symphony Orchestra - Monteux Conducts Tchaikovsky - Silverline Classics
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra/Comissiona - Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 4 - Silverline Classics
Vienna State Opera Orchestra/Rossi - Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf (narrated by Boris Karloff) and the Lt. Kije Symphonic Suite - Silverline Classics
Various - Saint-Saëns "Organ" Symphony and Franck's Symphony in D Minor - Silverline Classics
Academy of St. James/Pini - Bach's Brandenburg Concertos - Silverline Classics
Moist - Machine Punch Through - The Singles Collection - Silverline Records
Bad Haggis with Rubén Blades - One Special Day - AIX Records
Porcupine Tree's - In Absentia - DTS Entertainment
April
Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, - UME: IDJ | Island Records
The Who - Tommy - UME: MCA | MCA Records
Sugar Hill Gang - The Best Of Sugar Hill Gang - Warner Brothers Records/Silverline Records
Grandmaster Flash, The Furrious Five, Grandmaster Melle Mel - Greatest Hits - The Furious Five - The Greatest Hits, Grandmaster Melle Mel - Warner Music Group/Silverline Records
Britney Spears - In the Zone - BMG
R. Kelly - Chocolate Factory - BMG
John Hiatt - Bring the Family - UME: IGA | A&M
The Police - Every Breath You Take - UME: IGA | A&M
Utah Symphony Orchestra/Abravanel - Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake - Silverline Classics
Utah Symphony Orchestra /Abravanel - Brahms' Symphony No. 1 - Silverline Classics
Utah Symphony Orchestra /Abravanel - Mahler's Symphony No. 1 - Silverline Classics
Utah Symphony Orchestra /Abravanel - Vaughan-William's Symphony No. 6 - Silverline Classics
Chicago - X - Warner Brothers Records
Jackson Browne - Running On Empty - Warner Brothers Records
Jackson Browne - The Naked Ride Home - Warner Brothers Records
Frank Sinatra - Frank Sinatra and Jobim - Warner Brothers Records
Frank Sinatra - September Of My Years - Warner Brothers Records
May
Widespread Panic - Don't Tell The Band - Silverline Records
Styx - Cyclorama - Silverline Records
Utah Symphony Orchestra/Abravanel - Fiddle Faddle, 15 Favorites by Leroy Anderson - Silverline Classics
Utah Symphony Orchestra/Abravanel - Rachmaninov's Symphony No. 3 - Silverline Classics
Utah Symphony Orchestra/Abravanel - Brahms' Symphonies Nos. 2 & 3 - Silverline Classics
Utah Symphony Orchestra/Abravanel - Mahler's Symphony No. 2 - Silverline Classics
Utah Symphony Orchestra/Abravanel - Sibelius' Symphony Nos. 1 & 4 - Silverline Classics
Paul Williams - Going Back There Someday - AIX Records
Emmylou Harris - Roses In The Snow - Warner Brothers Records
REM - Green - Warner Brothers Records
REM - Out Of Time - Warner Brothers Records
REM - Monster - Warner Brothers Records
REM - New Adventures in Hi-Fi - Warner Brothers Records
REM - Up - Warner Brothers Records
B 52's - Cosmic Thing - Warner Brothers Records
David Crosby - If I Could Only Remember My Name - Warner Brothers Records
Stephen Stills - (self titled) - Warner Brothers Records
Graham Nash - Songs For Beginners - Warner Brothers Records
The Cars - 1st album - Warner Brothers Records
June
Big Head Todd And The Monsters - Crimes of Passion - Silverline Records
July
Bonnie Raitt - Nick of Time - EMI Recorded Music
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.
Members 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, EMI Recorded Music, Meridian Audio, Dolby Laboratories, Creative Labs and Panasonic (MEI).
For more information, go to www.dvdaudiocouncil.com.
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