2 channel DVD-Video music

You can put the identical 16-bit, 44.1kHz .wavs from the CD onto a data DVD. But you'll never, ever be able to take a CD that's 16-bit, 44.1kHz and put the material onto a disc as 24-bit, 96kHz material. That would be impossible. Even if you did have a way to put it on a DVD @ 24-bit, 96kHz, the quality would still be that of a 16-bit, 44.1kHz CD. You can't just magically get higher quality out of a CD than what you start with.

No

What "effect" do you think that upsampling a CD has? You can't make something from nothing. The material on a CD is 16-bit, 44.1kHz no matter what you try and do to it. You can't make it better than that.

sivadselim,

There are upsampling DACs out there. You should listen to the Anagram 24/192 SRC as implemented by Audio Aero sometime - it takes Redbook and makes it sound very, very good.

I imagine with a PC or audio workstation, you could upsample Redbook source, and re-encode it at 24/96 using pro audio software. Not sure how it would sound in the end, however...

- Steve O.

I don't agree with this. Every digital signal must be converted to analog signal (reconstructed). During this process there is digital filtering (to filter aliasing artifacts - noise). If you upsample 16-bit, 44.1 kHz source signal to for example 24-bit, 176,4 kHz, you don't get more resolution from source signal, but you "move" these noise artifacts to higher frequency, thus allowing better filtering.
So when reconstructing digital signal to analog, there is always noise in the process (the ideal filter doesn't exists - that's fact), so upsampling (or oversampling) will make better the conversion when speaking about noise.

For those who don't understand what I wrote here: by converting lower resolution signal to high resolution we don't get more information in signal, but we can convert it "clearly" (with less noise) to analog signal. That's all about the digital signals. Filters matters.

Hail Butterworth

You can't make it better than that. But it must be reconstructed to analog during playback and this process creates noise. Upsampling helps the reconstruction process, in the way that final analog signal will have less noise (in hearing band).

Also quality of filtering matters during the reconstruction process. That's why some CD/SACD players sound better (or different) compared to others.