Gorging on Sound
Not all DVD players support DVD-A... the format was stuck in
a whole lot of wrangling and fighting and the standards committee
didn't actually come out with anything until DVD was already an
established format. But eventually they did, and these days a lot
of players support it, and it's the easiest way to get clean,
uncompressed audio at high sampling rates and with multiple
channels distributed to the end listener.
That assumes the intended audience doesn't own a Blu-ray player.
DVD-A died, probably because few classical labels supported it, and
(more-likely) the high cost of DVD-A recordings. I remember seeing
Nickrenz-Aubort quad recordings that cost less than $3 on QS LPs, selling
for $25 on DVD-A. And there was only one album on the disk!
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