What's wrong with TrueHD?!?

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Originally Posted by werewuf

Here's what I know and proprietary products: It's not just bit decoding. In order to sell a digital product you have to create constraints so if it's decoded in another way you are not getting the exact product. You would not have a demand for your new product without it. In sound digital recording when you use one companies software (Like Pro Tools for instance) and you record say a 24 track version of a song and and you want to add 12 more tracks because the studio your at doesn't have 32 track capability and you go to another studio that has 32 digital capabiilty, but not Pro Tools, your sound will be different (or it won't work at all) do to different decoding and different source material. This is real, I have been a professional musician for 40 years have experiened this. To me, the analogy crosses over, otherwise why would Dolby and DTS bother launching a new product? To make us buy new decks and receivers so we can enjoy the nifty new lights?

I'm sorry, but that analogy does not hold true. Going from Protools with a HD rig to a Nuendo studio with Apogee converters, sure, there will be a difference. But in your case tha DA conversion takes place in the same receiver, no matter what. So either the player extracts the PCM from THD and sends it to the receiver or (if it can) the player sends the bitstream and lets the receiver do the unpacking and ultimately the DA conversion. There is still no evidence in your arguments that one should sound better than the other, unless there is a difference in the extracting of the DTHD streams. But you're the first person to mention something like this. This would be a serious issue if true.