Fox and DTS HD-MA

[DaViD Boulet]

DTS-HD MA is a great solution and there will soon be a plethora of players that can decode, as well as bitstream to outboard devices via 1.3. The fact that the hardware has taken a while to catch up with Blu-ray specs should not cause us to look backwards and stop the format from moving forward. We're early adoptors: we're audio/videophiles. We should be happy that content providers are future-thinking with their software and not merely authoring for legacy gear.

There are positives to DTS-HD MA over Dolby TrueHD: DTS-HD MA has a better sounding "core" stream for non-advanced-audio listeners that the 640 dolby track on TrueHD titles, and so delivers superior sound for those without HDMI at present.

It also takes less space than TrueHD since the DTS "core" is built upon with exention frames to provide the Master Audio quality, versus Dolby's companion track for TrueHD on BD (so in some cases it's the best solution if bandwidth is a problem).