There are DVD-RAM peripherals available for computers now, but do not confuse these with DVD-Audio drives. Authoring a true DVD-Audio disc still requires specialized and expensive software and hardware, presently costing many thousands of dollars. Plus, blank DVD-RAM media is much more expensive than CD-R.

DVD-Audio discs will be able to deliver much higher sample rates and word lengths than CD-Audio can. MasterLink allows you to mix down at these higher rates now, and deliver the project on several CD24s to a DVD mastering facility. Their authoring software, in a computer, can read the high-resolution audio files from the CD24s and assemble the tracks into a single DVD. If you have particular processing or arrangements you'd like to suggest to the mastering facility, you can include a Red Book CD with all the songs on it as a guide for the engineer.