Is Warner changing to DTS-HD Master Audio too?

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Originally Posted by Rik1138

Yep, authoring these discs is what I do... Granted, anyone can buy the DTS Audio Suite, but I am using a company-supplied copy (it's not cheap, $1500 I think...). To my knowledge, their software is still the only encoder available that does DTS-HD MA (as I believe Dolby's software is the only TrueHD encoder currently available...).

Damn! I am green with envy!
I've been dying to play around with this software, even a demo version would be great, but nadda. No chance to do so!

Speaking of price, you just brought up something I've never thought of before.
http://www.dolby.com/professional/pr...ng-DVD_HD.html
http://www.dts.com/Professionals/Pro...dio_Suite.aspx
The basic Dolby Media Encoder SE is the cheapest of the bunch, and it costs a whooping US$2900. That's a whole US$900 more than full featured DTS Master Suite. That's a huge difference and its perhaps the reason why more studios going over to DTS? Anyone's guess I suppose.

No, there wouldn't be any benefit. Once it's 16-bit, you can't get any added quality by converting it to 24. It won't hurt anything, but it won't help either.

Thanks a lot for answering this question. Really appreciate it.

By the way, did the software allow additional extensions on top of the DTS-Core? What I meant is, in a DTS MA track, there is the DTS-Core, which is plain ol' DTS 5.1 in 1536kbps, right? Is it possible to have further extensions like DTS-ES Discrete 6.1 or DTS 96/24 on top of the core? I'm quite sure ES Matrix is possible. But I'm not sure about the rest.