Fox and DTS HD-MA

[DaViD Boulet]

I disagree with all points, Dolby 640 is more than a match for DTS 1536.

Your ears and mine do indeed disagree. My ears consistently prefer DTS at 1500+ over Dolby at 640.

Not to mention it's more compatible with many more setups.

Any consumer with HD media like Blu-ray is likely to have a decoder that can handle the DTS core.

DD and TrueHD offer late night options DTS does not as well.

One of the reasons many audiophile's prefer DTS's "less is more" approach with audiophile sound reproduction.

Plus DTS' method of a core, followed by a HD extension, followed finally by the MA lossless data is needlessly complicated, CPU intensive, and more subject to errors (Die Hard 2). With TrueHD you have a companion Dolby Digital track, and that's it.

To Craig's point, what does it matter how the algorim is accomplishing the goal? The end result is both provide lossless when fully decoded, and both provide a legacy stream for SPDIF listeners. DTS can do it with less bandwidth given the requirement on BD for TrueHD to bundle a companion DD stream.

Did anyone really hear a difference with Close Encounters?
Probably the millions of PS3 owners who can actually access the TrueHD track.

And Millions of PS3 owners will enjoy the DTS-HD MA once they get their update. Then we can compare. The fact that I hear differences between the PCM and TrueHD on many Sony discs leads me curious about what we might or might not hear comparing the "bit for bit lossless" playback of TrueHD and DTS-HD MA.

The PS3 has done TrueHD since day one. Full Dolby Digital Plus (7.1) was the recent update.

My bad. I thought it was added when DVD upscaling was added (I didn't have HDMI before then)

DTS-MA on the PS3 has been a rumor since day one...one of the PS3 developers at CES was exasperated by people asking him this, explaining that it's up to Sony Corp and DTS, not them.

Paidgeek stated that it was coming in early '08. Not a rumor.