Why is Dolby True HD going the way of the Dodo?

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Originally Posted by BLUCanadian

PCM file size is much larger than Dolby True HD or DTS HD MA... hence, to conserve disc space

Originally Posted by Big Daddy

That is easy to explain. LPCM takes way too much space on the disc and studios prefer to put junk and advertisements on the disc. Some of us predicted this a couple of years ago. Read my sticky thread on A Guide to HD Audio Codecs. You will note that I have a statement at the end of post #1 that mentions this.

I know what you mean, but using that excuse is just plain bollox! I am sure there are better ways of encoding information into a BD disc. I mean 50 gigs is a lot of space. Here's why I say this- First, if Warner was able to squeeze the VC-1 video encode, True HD track along with the useless dd (640kps) into a 30 gig HDDVD for BATMAN BEGINS plus supplements on top of that; then why can't they give us the uncompressed track with the BD version when they used a 50 gig BD disc release??? Talk about space??? Secondly, they (Warner) themselves were able to squeeze the VC-1 encode, an uncompressed PCM, true HD, DD(640kps), all the special features and a partridge in a pear tree into a 50 gig disk for 300. I'd like to know how Warner was able to do this, and why FOX, Universal, Paramount, SONY and the rest of the studios could not with their releases??? I understand that not all studios use VC-1 but how much more space can an AVC encode use?? The same goes for DTS-HD! Space? C'mon now??That's just plain ridiculous!!!D
Lastly, if they can do away with the regular DD track like the spanish/french track, they'll have more than enough space. Besides, you really don't have to have the special features in the same disc as the feature film. There are ways of utilizing every bit of space in the disc, instead the studios choose to just jam it with useless stuff! I am all about maximizing the AQ and PQ of the movie and there's nothing like uncompressed, unadulterated-raw soundtrack Heck, whatever happened to the highly publicized 100 Gig BD disc so we wont have this "space" problem anymore??

So you have to give me a better excuse than that!