Digital Gain Control with 72-bit resolution. Upsampling to 88.2 or 96kHz. Display, Mute, Volume. Lights for Lock and Emphasis. The 800 DVD includes an 800 CD Machine, but extends the capability to provide the finest DVD playback possible.
Specialized cards manipulate and decode the DVD data and prepare the video.
This architecture ensures not only the highest absolute quality and flexibility, but also a high degree of future-proofness for both audio and video disc playback. Although it looks like a CD, information can be stored on more than one layer, and the track pitch and pit-size are smaller. By using high-quality MPEG2 video compression with Dolby Digital, or MPEG audio sound formats, one DVD disc can hold a whole motion picture. The 800 is Meridian's definitive statement on the current and future quality of the new DVD medium. The digital video circuits provide the highest quality picture in a variety of formats.