DTS Pro Series Surround Encoder used at Real World Studios

DTS (Digital Theater Systems) have announced that Peter Gabriel's Real World Studios, for its first commercial application 'Play: The Videos' - the new video collection on DVD-V - used the new DTS Pro Series Surround Encoder.
Featuring fully restored visuals and brand new 5.1-channel surround sound remixes by Gabriel and long-time production collaborator Daniel Lanios, the DVD comprises 23 videos encoded in DTS at 96 kHz / 24 bit audio-quality throughout – the highest available sound quality on DVD-Video.
Tracks span the artist’s 27-year solo career, including hits like 'Solsbury Hill', 'Games Without Frontiers', and 'Sledgehammer'. Extras include three bonus videos, also mixed in 5.1 surround sound.
The video programme was put together entirely in-house at Gabriel’s Real World Studios complex. Interactive Director York Tillyer, who oversaw both video and audio encoding teams, explained the choice of DTS as the preferred encoding option: “We’re using full bit-rate DTS on this special project. It's the obvious choice for people listening in 5.1-channel surround; it just sounds much better and is far less compressed. Peter is very keen to achieve the best possible quality that he can on projects, so we encoded everything in DTS 96/24.
“The software encoder is very straight-forward to use and a big advantage is that it runs cross-platform, on both PC and Mac. This meant that we were able to run the audio encoding on our G5 / G4 workstations running the Final Cut Pro and Sonic Creator applications.”
'Play: The Videos' was recently released by Warner Vision International on DVD-Video on October 26, 2004.
The new DTS Pro Series Surround Encoder is an affordable stand-alone solution for the Mac or PC which, along with the DTS Pro Series Network Encoder, a cost-effective networked solution for large post-production facilities based on the Apple’s Xserve RAID storage system, offers the first commercially-available solution for creating high-quality 96kHz and 6.1-channel discrete DTS-ES soundtracks.
Both encoders can be used to create multi-channel DTS soundtracks for DVD-Video, DVD-Audio and 5.1 CD titles.
DTS, www.dtsonline.com.
(SP)