Sony is now using DTS Master Audio?

[Henners]

Heyy

Looking at the front page of the new releases, looks like they are now turning to dts. Yayy

~Hen

[Clark Kent]

Penton on the Insiders page basically said Sony would be switching to DTS-HD MA now. I think some older titles held back will still have Dolby TrueHD.

[Simez]

Yes this is true Snatch is using this codec, now I'm wondering which codec Terminator Salvation will use. Either way I don't care, both are good.

[Rob J in WNY]

I wonder if the banter on the "Should Sony use DTS-HD Master Audio or Dolby TrueHD?" poll thread caught their attention at all. This is the "go-to" Blu-ray Disc website, with thousands of active members at any given time, and a great deal of serious BD audio discussion takes place here. The poll figures are pretty solid in showing that, all technical comparison aside, there was significant preference for DTS-HD Master Audio.

FWIW, I voted that it wouldn't matter to me either way.

[Clark Kent]

Originally Posted by Rob J in WNY

I wonder if the banter on the "Should Sony use DTS-HD Master Audio or Dolby TrueHD?" poll thread caught their attention at all. This is the "go-to" Blu-ray Disc website, with thousands of active members at any given time, and a great deal of serious BD audio discussion takes place here. The poll figures are pretty solid in showing that, all technical comparison aside, there was significant preference for DTS-HD Master Audio.

FWIW, I voted that it wouldn't matter to me either way.

I think in the end, sales figures mattered the most. Blu-ray purchasers have almost always preferred DTS over Dolby.

[Rob J in WNY]

Originally Posted by Clark Kent

I think in the end, sales figures mattered the most. Blu-ray purchasers have almost always preferred DTS over Dolby.

Although I'm with the "lossless is lossless" minority (believing that other factors, both physical and imagined, contribute to the DTS-HD MA poll preference), I do admit that in my DVD buying days, I liked seeing a DTS audio option. It was the superior sounding codec for lossy multichannel DVD sound.

[Trogdor2010]

Perfect proof fans are what are convining studios to make little changes. I found it odd that people are promoting a less efficient codec over a codec that is pretty much the same quality. Of course I don't have an AV receiver to have lossless audio (I'm thinking of replacing my PS3 with a stand alone player with multichannel analog inputs though).

So sony (I just wanted to say this), how about giving us that caption input option you promise us CIH owners?

[KubrickFan]

I think it was mostly done for the people that are bitstreaming. The DTS core you get is of higher quality than the standard Dolby Digital track you're getting when there's a TrueHD track on the disc.