Why do most New Releases use DTS-HD audio rather than Dolby TrueHD?

[MrHT]

It seems like almost every BD released now is encoded using DTS-HD audio. It doesn't seem like many studios use Dolby TrueHD anymore. Why is that?

[Donat96]

Two reasons. With a Dolby TrueHD track, you have to encode a seperate Dolby Digital track for systems without lossless support. DTS-HD has a lossy core which can be extracted in those cases. DTS also has faster encoders than Dolby, and as we all know, time is money, so studios prefer DTS there also.

[aiman04]

I also don't mind, as long as it's lossless. We still have big releases with Dolby TrueHD. Transformers: Dark of the Moon and Super 8 both have excellent 5-star Dolby TrueHD tracks. I think lossless codecs, all being equal, the movie's sound design is where it matters most.

Originally Posted by Donat96

Two reasons. With a Dolby TrueHD track, you have to encode a seperate Dolby Digital track for systems without lossless support. DTS-HD has a lossy core which can be extracted in those cases. DTS also has faster encoders than Dolby, and as we all know, time is money, so studios prefer DTS there also.

Dolby TrueHD also has lossless Dolby Digital, but it's embedded instead of a extraction of the core track. Any receiver without Dolby TrueHD decoder will automatically get Dolby Digital.

[Tech-UK]

Originally Posted by aiman04

i also don't mind, as long as it's lossless. We still have big releases with dolby truehd. transformers: Dark of the moon and super 8 both have excellent 5-star dolby truehd tracks. I think lossless codecs, all being equal, the movie's sound design is where it matters most.

Dolby truehd also has lossless dolby digital, but it's embedded instead of a extraction of the core track. Any receiver without dolby truehd decoder will automatically get dolby digital.

+1. Transformers DOTM and Super 8 are two of the best movie soundtracks currently avaliable on Blu-ray. People need to get over the fact that, DTS dosen't mean "better than Dolby" as many have to come to think. It really comes down to the sound design/mix.

[Riddler95]

Originally Posted by MrHT

It seems like almost every BD released now is encoded using DTS-HD audio. It doesn't seem like many studios use Dolby TrueHD anymore. Why is that?

It has also been a long time since I've seen a new release Blu-Ray title that uses PCM Uncompressed Audio as the Audio Format as well.

The DTS-HD Audio Format is fantastic I think. With DVD and I'm assuming back with Laserdisc, DTS Audio usually sounded superior than Dolby Digital Audio.

[slimdude]

Originally Posted by Riddler95

It has also been a long time since I've seen a new releaser Blu-Ray Title that uses PCM Uncompressed Audio as the Audio Format.

I've noticed too!

[Caesu]

"Because DTS-HD MA always sounds better/richer despite the mathematics stating the two codecs should sound identical."


+1

[Waszak1977]

Originally Posted by caesu

"because dts-hd ma always sounds better/richer despite the mathematics stating the two codecs should sound identical."


+1

+2

[slimdude]

PCM 5.1 (uncompressed) sounds just as good DTS-HD 5.1 MA, if not equal.

[Blu-ray Fanatic]

Originally Posted by waszak1977

+2

+3

[Petra_Kalbrain]

Originally Posted by MrHT

It seems like almost every BD released now is encoded using DTS-HD audio. It doesn't seem like many studios use Dolby TrueHD anymore. Why is that?

Because DTS-HD MA always sounds better/richer despite the mathematics stating the two codecs should sound identical.

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[raygendreau]

Originally Posted by MrHT

It seems like almost every BD released now is encoded using DTS-HD audio. It doesn't seem like many studios use Dolby TrueHD anymore. Why is that?

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I take it you haven't seen this thread:

https://forum.blu-ray.com/audio-theo...an-truehd.html