can a dvd hold 8 channels of audio?

[roleydre]

i think dvds can only hold 7 channels , but i have no idea, and a web search didnt help, just seein if its possible...

 

[j_garcia]

Probably CAN, but not sure any of them DO. I think 6.1 was it for DVD and 7.1 was matrixed from the 6th channel. Pretty sure we didn't get discrete 7.1 until Blu-ray with the newer codecs.

 

[roleydre]

ok thanks alot , been killin me i cudnt find that out, one person said he had a dvd with dts 7.1 audio, i think he is mistaken, and he never told me wut movie it was, on another chat board i was on

 

[BoredSysAdmin]

Hypothetically speaking if it's 480/720p video with HD-DTS 7.1 audio in MKV file container burned on the DVD, then you "technically" have a DVD with 7.1 sound, but AFAIK very few if any at all hardware device would play such "dvd"
PCH C series devices might

 

[j_garcia]

Been a while since I've bought any DVDs, but this was an old list of the 6.1 discrete dts-ES DVDs:

1. Austin Powers in Goldmember
2. Bad Taste
3. Beastmaster
4. Bones
5. Blade 2
6. Blade: Trinity
7. Butterfly Effect, The
8. Can't Stop The Music
9. Chicken Run
10. Contamination
11. Day of the Dead
12. Dead & Buried
13. Dirty Dancing: Ultimate Edition
14. Evil Dead, The
15. Fast Company
16. Final Countdown, The
17. Final Destination 2
18. God Told Me To
19. Gladiator
20. *Haunting, The
21. Highlander
22. Hills Have Eyes, The
23. Leatherface: Texas Chainsaw Massacre III
24. Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Rings, The: Director's Cut
25. Lord Of The Rings: The Return of the King, The: Director's Cut
26. Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers, The: Special Extended Edition
27. Man Who Fell to Earth, The
28. Maniac
29. Mask, The: Platinum Series
30. Neon Genesis Evangelion: End of Evangelion
31. Ninja Scroll: 10th Anniversary Special Edition
32. Open Water
33. Opera
34. Osterman Weekend, The
35. Q: The Winged Serpent
36. Running Man, The
37. Rush Hour 2
38. Saw
39. Se7en: Platinum Series
40. S1mone
41. Standing in the Shadows of Motown
42. Stargate: Ultimate Edition
43. Stir of Echoes: SE
44. Stunt Man, The
45. Suspiria
46. Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The
47. Titanic:SCE
48. Top Gun: Special Collector's Edition
49. Venom
50. Vigilante
51. Watcher in the Woods, The

Total=51

I am almost 100% certain that the last codec for DVD was dts-ES and it was 6.1 only; 7.1 was achieved via the processor which would properly decode into the two rear channels. There were two flavors of 6.1 as well - there were tracks that were actually matrixed themselves (mixed that way, Dolby Digital EX was 6.1 Matrix) and those listed above (may be more than that, but not many) that were mastered with a discrete 6th channel.

 

[roleydre]

ok cool thx guys