Lossless audio codecs on Blu-ray discs

[Bruce Morrison]

Hi everyone,

I've just joined this forum, and I'm hoping to invest in Blu-ray soon, although I'm waiting for the second-generation players to come out.

My question relates to the lossless audio codecs, i.e. Dolby Digital TrueHD and DTS HD Master Audio. Of the Blu-ray discs released to date, only a few (e.g. 'Kingdom Of Heaven') appear to have these lossless tracks. Is my impression correct - and when is it expected that Blu-ray discs will start to appear with at least a DD TrueHD track as the norm rather than the exception?

I know none of the current Blu-ray players have decoding for these lossless codecs (except possibly via firmware upgrades that may now be available), but presumably, we can expect at least some of the second-generation wave of players to include this?

[Bruce Morrison]

Oh, well I must have been looking at the wrong titles then. Thanks for the correction.

What's the situation on the Blu-ray players' ability to decode the lossless audio tracks? Is it expected that the 2nd-generation players will all have this ability?

[HD-Greek]

Originally Posted by benes

I hope so. Theres only 2 or 3 titles with TrueHD so thats probably not a priority.

Which are the TrueHD titles?????

[minimoke]

Here in Belgium, some Warner titles were released, but all of them just have DD and DTS.
Sony titles were the first to hit the streets in Belgium, and all of them had PCM. So I thought this would be the standard to go.... No way.

Also the Warner titles cost about 33 Eurs's, the sony titles are sold for 23 Euro's.

I will wait a bit to buy Warner titles. I have 9 Sony titles so far, but I need new releases, because the ones I don't have from sony realy don't interest me.