DVD-Audio Penetration Explodes, Over 700 Albums Available

3-Mar-04

The DVD-Audio Format is seeing exponential growth. To date, over 160 DVD-Audio player models are available from 35+ manufacturers. Over 14 million players are already in the market, far outstripping the sales of competing audio formats, with player sales up 500% on the previous year. An estimated two million computer-based DVD-Audio players have shipped, from companies such as Creative Labs and InterVideo. Additionally, DVD-Audio discs play on all 200+ million DVD-Video players plus PS2 and Xbox consoles.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.FebruaryPeter Frampton - Frampton Comes Alive - UME: IGA | A&MMarvin Gaye ñ Letís Get It On - UME: Uni/Motown | MotownAaron Neville - Nature Boy: The Standards Album - Verve | VerveDavid Sanborn ñ timeagain - Verve | VerveMike Oldfield - Tubular Bells 2003- Warner Brothers RecordsMarchGrant Geissman Quintet - There and Back Again ñ AIX RecordsSlaughter - Then and Now - Silverline RecordsSteely Dan ñ Gaucho - UME: MCA | MCA RecordsKeaton Simons - Drive Away ñ AIX RecordsSurf City Allstars - I Get Surround - AIX RecordsLondon Symphony Orchestra - Monteux Conducts Tchaikovsky - Silverline ClassicsBaltimore Symphony Orchestra/Comissiona - Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 4 - Silverline ClassicsVienna State Opera Orchestra/Rossi ñ Prokofievís Peter and the Wolf (narrated by Boris Karloff) and the Lt. Kije Symphonic Suite ñ Silverline ClassicsVarious ñ Saint-SaÎns ìOrganî Symphony and Franckís Symphony in D Minor ñ Silverline ClassicsAcademy of St. James/Pini - Bach's Brandenburg Concertos - Silverline ClassicsMoist - Machine Punch Through - The Singles Collection - Silverline RecordsBad Haggis with RubÈn Blades - One Special Day - AIX RecordsPorcupine Tree's - In Absentia ñ DTS EntertainmentAprilElton John ñ Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, - UME: IDJ | Island RecordsThe Who ñ Tommy - UME: MCA | MCA RecordsSugar Hill Gang ñ The Best Of Sugar Hill Gang - Warner Brothers Records/Silverline RecordsGrandmaster Flash, The Furrious Five, Grandmaster Melle Mel ñ Greatest Hits - The Furious Five - The Greatest Hits, Grandmaster Melle Mel - Warner Music Group/Silverline RecordsBritney Spears - In the Zone - BMGR. Kelly - Chocolate Factory ñ BMGJohn Hiatt ñ Bring the Family - UME: IGA | A&MThe Police ñ Every Breath You Take - UME: IGA | A&Mtah Symphony Orchestra/Abravanel - Tchaikovskyís Swan Lake - Silverline ClassicsUtah Symphony Orchestra /Abravanel - Brahmsí Symphony No. 1 - Silverline ClassicsUtah Symphony Orchestra /Abravanel - Mahler's Symphony No. 1 - Silverline Classicstah Symphony Orchestra /Abravanel - Vaughan-William's Symphony No. 6 - Silverline ClassicsChicago - X - Warner Brothers RecordsJackson Browne - Running On Empty - Warner Brothers RecordsJackson Browne - The Naked Ride Home - Warner Brothers RecordsFrank Sinatra - Frank Sinatra and Jobim - Warner Brothers RecordsFrank Sinatra - September Of My Years - Warner Brothers RecordsMayWidespread Panic - Don't Tell The Band - Silverline RecordsStyx ñ Cyclorama - Silverline RecordsUtah Symphony Orchestra/Abravanel - Fiddle Faddle, 15 Favorites by Leroy Anderson - Silverline ClassicsUtah Symphony Orchestra/Abravanel - Rachmaninovís Symphony No. 3 - Silverline ClassicsUtah Symphony Orchestra/Abravanel - Brahmsí Symphonies Nos. 2 & 3 - Silverline ClassicsUtah Symphony Orchestra/Abravanel - Mahlerís Symphony No. 2 - Silverline ClassicsUtah Symphony Orchestra/Abravanel - Sibeliusí Symphony Nos. 1 & 4 - Silverline ClassicsPaul Williams - Going Back There Someday - AIX RecordsEmmylou Harris - Roses In The Snow - Warner Brothers RecordsREM ñ Green - Warner Brothers RecordsREM - Out Of Time - Warner Brothers RecordsREM - Monster - Warner Brothers RecordsREM - New Adventures in Hi-Fi - Warner Brothers RecordsREM ñ Up - Warner Brothers RecordsB 52's - Cosmic Thing - Warner Brothers RecordsDavid Crosby - If I Could Only Remember My Name - Warner Brothers RecordsStephen Stills - (self titled) - Warner Brothers RecordsGraham Nash - Songs For Beginners - Warner Brothers RecordsThe Cars - 1st album - Warner Brothers RecordsJuneBig Head Todd And The Monsters ñ Crimes of Passion - Silverline RecordsJulyBonnie Raitt - Nick of Time ñ EMI Recorded MusicAbout the DVD-Audio Council: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) are all members of the DVD Audio Council. 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.