Great Review For THE DEPARTED For Both Formats on HighDefDigest.com

[BostonHD22]

as you can tell from my avatar and my signature, i love the departed and it's one of my favorite movies of all time. i took the day from school today to pick it up and it looks great. you can't go wrong with either version with tru hd audio or uncompressed

[Ascended_Saiyan]

Here is a quote from the HighDefDigest HD DVD review of Departed (TrueHD vs. LPCM):

Now, how do the PCM and TrueHD tracks compare? Given this historic opportunity, I decided to conduct a little experiment. I invited a friend over, who is a big movie and music buff, but not particularly technical. He knows good audio when he hears it, yet doesn't know a PCM from an RPM from R.E.M. In other words, he's Joe Six-Pack with a great ear. Anyway, together we conducted a "blind" audio test -- we select ten short sequences from the film, and listened to a compare of each. We took turns firing up each scene, and selecting which one sounded better, with no knowledge of which sample was the Blu-ray and which the HD DVD.

After writing down our answers on little scraps of paper (note that we didn't throw them into a hat -- we aren't that dorky), the results were interesting. Out of the twenty comparisons (ten for him, ten for me), we could only detect differences on four scenes total. But of those four, we both always preferred the PCM track...

I love it!