Uncompressed or Dolby Digital?

[GoldenRedux]

Originally Posted by PeterTHX

And who cares if DTS has it in their spec yet NO releases use it?
A spec is only as useful as actual product.

Sorry, this is a ridiculous argument. The big difference is, it is there in the spec to be used if anyone wants to, period. With TrueHD it just cannot be done, and that's that, so if a customer wants to do 192/24 5.1, for, say, a music release, guess which codec they are going to choose?

They may be shipping receivers with the decoders, but until the Denon ships, no one can *hear* it.

So?

In any case TrueHD covers just about every film soundtrack yet produced (how many film soundtracks use 24/192? I'm betting close to none). It works, uses less DSP and is supported by the majority of BD players out there.

Who's limiting this conversation to film soundtracks? As a matter of fact, the majority of film soundtracks aren't even recorded digitally, so they can be remastered digitally at whatever resolution the producer/director/studio desires. Blu-ray (or HD-DVD for that matter) aren't even limited to just film releases, so, what's your point? Maybe I want to listen to a concert on Blu-ray recorded in 192/24 or how about a multichannel audio-only release of an album? The potential is there, and Dolby has limited TrueHD to only 96/24 in the spec, for whatever their reasons.