PCM vs. True HD on 300

[MatrixS2000]

Originally Posted by darkedgex

Uh wow. No, Dolby TrueHD and DTS HD Master Audio is better than Linear PCM. And yes, they usually use the saved space to add more content or increase the picture quality... at any rate, the "lazy" route here would be to use raw LPCM because encoding the audio actually takes some time and effort.

Both DTHD and DTS-MA are converted to PCM for playback, so no they can't sound better if the same bit depth/sampling is used for both tracks.

DTHD and DTS-MA's advantage over PCM is on storage requirements only. That saved space might not be used for video, but to add other languages in HD, or PIP, etc...