Blu-ray audio codecs. What does the future hold?

[Yeha-Noha]

I wish I had a crystal ball to portend what the future holds.

However, I can tell you what the future ought to hold, in my opinion.

We need to have one and only one format that is lossless and universally playable on any BD player. Yup, you probably guessed it, PCM.

How is that possible since new BDs coming out these days seldom have PCM audio tracks?

I'll tell you how:

BD-Live to the rescue! Special features, extras, interactive menus, and all the other extra stuff we get on BDs can be downloaded off the internet by your BD player. The freed up BD space will allow the reinstatement of PCM as the standard universal audio format on BDs. After all, decoded DTS-HD MA is PCM anyway. The studios won't have to pay licensing fees to Dolby Labs or DTS anymore either. That means cheaper BDs and players. DTS-HD MA and DD TrueHD as competing audio formats can thus die out, the sooner the better. A house divided cannot stand.

P-C-M!!! P-C-M!!! We want P-C-M!!! P-C-M!!! P-C-M!!! We want P-C-M!!!P-C-M!!! P-C-M!!! We want P-C-M!!!

I wish that will happen. But I know it's only wishful thinking.