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In today’s O’Reilly Digital Media newsletter, David Battino has a piece on how you can burn your own surround-sound DVDs without spending a fortune on encoding software.

In short, you load six mono WAV files into an AC3 encoder and then drag the resulting file to your DVD-burning program. Depending on the encoder’s capabilities, you may need to interleave the six mono files into a single multichannel file first. And in Roxio Toast, which we’ll use here to burn the DVD, the secret is to Option-drag the AC3 file.

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As the format battle rages on, today Toshiba announced three new HD DVD players: the HD-A3, the HD-A30, and the HD-A35. Michael Imperioli, star of The Sopranos and recent Toshiba HD DVD commercials, is not included.

Toshiba’s third generation of HD DVD players are all priced lower than the cheapest Blu-ray drives I could manage to find online. Why Toshiba decided to launch three new players at once is unknown, but it’s likely because it’s trying to crowd up store shelves with the lower-priced HD-DVDs in order to draw consumer attention away from Blu-ray Disc

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