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Thread: All Dolby Digital, not enough DTS |
    
Bronze Member Username: 1lakerfan
Post Number: 68
Registered: Apr-06
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| Posted on Thursday, February 08, 2007 - 06:23 pm: |
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Why is that almost all movies have Dolby Digital but there is not that many that have DTS? Is it a money issue, or what? |
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Bronze Member Username: Usernamex
London
England
Post Number: 71
Registered: Oct-05
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| Posted on Thursday, February 08, 2007 - 07:23 pm: |
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One reason is probably space, By the time you add extras, previews and other commentaries, or different languages... A DTS soundtrack is a lot bigger than Dolby digital (you'll notice if you use DVD shrink), and since DD is the standard (de facto or otherwise) you can't drop DD in favour DTS, you'll need both to offer dts. Its a shame, I generally find the soundtracks that really grab me are DTS. I thought the war of the worlds DTS sound was very cool, I remember playing it back latter wondering why it was so flat, those large guns didn't sound right, all that breaking glass wasn't the same and it was the DD soundtrack.
I also wonder if the disks with DTS didn't put as much effort into the DD version and that's why they aren't as good? |
Platinum Member Username: Project6
Post Number: 12832
Registered: Dec-03
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| Posted on Thursday, February 08, 2007 - 07:23 pm: |
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Licensing and support. |
Bronze Member Username: Cugine
San Jose,
CA
USA
Post Number: 27
Registered: Jan-07
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| Posted on Saturday, February 10, 2007 - 08:15 pm: |
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I'm with you guys. I love DTS! Watching Gladiator in DTS = absolutely amazing. I wish more movies came with it. |
Gold Member Username: Samijubal
Post Number: 3295
Registered: Jul-04
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| Posted on Saturday, February 10, 2007 - 08:25 pm: |
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DTS uses a lot more disc space as already stated. It uses twice as much space as DD, and since all DTS discs also have DD, that's triple the space that DD alone uses. |
Gold Member Username: Arande2
400dB could probably d...,
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Post Number: 1113
Registered: Dec-06
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| Posted on Saturday, February 10, 2007 - 08:26 pm: |
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Time for HD DVD or Blu-Ray then... |
Platinum Member Username: Project6
Post Number: 12878
Registered: Dec-03
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| Posted on Saturday, February 10, 2007 - 11:15 pm: |
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No it isn't...you are missing the point. This is not about blu-ray or hd-dvd. |
Bronze Member Username: 1lakerfan
Post Number: 73
Registered: Apr-06
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| Posted on Sunday, February 11, 2007 - 12:14 am: |
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So that does that mean the majority of the Blue ray movies should use DTS? |
Platinum Member Username: Project6
Post Number: 12880
Registered: Dec-03
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| Posted on Sunday, February 11, 2007 - 01:52 am: |
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Not necessarily, when blu-ray and HD-DVD came out so did Dolby Digital Plus and DTS-HD.
And as I wrote before, licensing and support. Your preference is irrelevant. |
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Gold Member Username: Arande2
400dB could probably d...,
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Too Many DBs...
Post Number: 1123
Registered: Dec-06
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| Posted on Sunday, February 11, 2007 - 02:14 am: |
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Interesting... |
Bronze Member Username: Usernamex
London
England
Post Number: 72
Registered: Oct-05
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| Posted on Sunday, February 11, 2007 - 07:32 am: |
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The first review of a Toshiba HD-DVD I read made an interesting point about DTS over Dolby Digital... The dvd player would transcode the newer generation Dolby sound formats (DD+, true-HD) into standard DTS (at max bitrate I think) to supports old receivers presumably at the highest possible quality.
• The PCM signal is converted to standard 5.1-channel DTS and fed to the player's digital outputs, where it may be accessed and decoded by any pre-pro or receiver with DTS capability.
"What was that, you ask? No, that's not a typo. Bizarro world comes to the audio side. The HD-A1 (and the HD-XA1 as well) provides a conventionally decodable 5.1-channel DTS signal at the player's digital outputs, derived from the HD DVD's original Dolby Digital+ tracks after conversion to PCM! "
http://www.ultimateavmag.com/hddiscplayers/506toshibahd/index1.html |
Gold Member Username: John_s
Columbus,
Ohio
US
Post Number: 1358
Registered: Feb-04
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| Posted on Sunday, February 11, 2007 - 08:43 pm: |
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"...provides a conventionally decodable 5.1-channel DTS signal at the player's digital outputs, derived from the HD DVD's original Dolby Digital+ tracks after conversion to PCM!"
It's only right since due to its higher bitrate, DTS sounds better. It's about time DTS is getting some payback after playing second fiddle to DD all these years. I have only seen one DVD without DD. That was the Eagles "Hell Freezes Over" DVD, with PCM and DTS only.
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