Fox and DTS HD-MA

[WickyWoo]

No. DTS doesn't "mix their tracks". That was in the days of LD.

DTS did all the DVD encodes at least up to an including Private Ryan, and yes they were often sweetened mixes to boot

It was only after Private Ryan and the 768k encodes that they started selling encoders

Huh? The production companies that create music-oriented DVDs (and now Blu-rays) by and large prefer DTS to Dolby. I guess I wasn't clear on what I meant.

What they really like is PCM, until Blu they didn't have any other options if they wanted surround.
TrueHD does just fine as demonstrated by the Dave Matthews disc.

In my opinion, not backed up by any scuttlebutt or rumors, DTS has paid New Line and Fox in a last ditch attempt to avoid obsolescence. It's redundant, far more prone to decoding errors, and in the end the same thing as TrueHD or PCM audio that's already standard. If they followed standard procedure, they're doing Fox's encodes for free (or close to it) in an effort to push the DTS HDMA recievers, a product that's a year late to the market. I'm certainly not the only person that feels that way, quite a number of people in the enthusiast print media are pretty disgusted with them as well. If they can't get a lot more studios using it, and a lot more recievers supporting it, it's trouble

Low end DVD players have been dropping DTS support for the last year or so to save themselves the dollar or whatever it costs to include the codec. That can't be helping their bottom line as those are the best sellers.

They mistake the quality of the *mix* vs. the codec. Truth is that stuff like Live Free or Die Hard or The Day After Tomorrow would sound equally amazing in Dolby TrueHD.

I've always felt that was the root of most of the DTS love out there, along with that little red light making people feel special.