Universal to make DTS-HD MA the standard for Blu-ray

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Originally Posted by Clark Kent

If it helps, someone on another forum with sources at Paramount is claiming their newly encoded BDs will all be very high bitrate AVC or VC-1 encodes.

Since sound has literally become 65% of the film viewing experience to me (it can actually ruin a movie if it doesn't consistently create the setting atmosphere), Paramount using high bitrate AVC or VC-1 encodes only helps them out a bit. But, at least it's a step in the right direction. However, if they plan to price themselves like they did with their previous releases, I want top notch for my money! I won't spend $40 for subpar content anymore. I was upset with FOX for a long while too over their use of MPEG-2 and their price tags of $36 to $40. At that price, so long as it would have been AVC/VC-1 and DTS HD MA, I would have been happy.