PS3 to get DTS HD MA confirmed by PM!

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Originally Posted by unreal1080p

My rankings were ONLY based on aural quality alone.
I was'nt talking about the benefits of space saving on the disc that could go towards putting the extras and documentaries on a disc in HD rather then SD by using DTS-HD MA... simply talking about aural quality of the codecs.

Simply put, all things being equal, you CANNOT beat the aural quality of Uncompressed PCM audio. That is not to say that DTS-HD MA can't match it or is'nt preferable to it because of the space it saves (I happen to agree with you on those points). My aural quality order remains unchanged but my personall preference order would be:

#1 = DTS-HD MA (Lossless-Compressed)
#2 = PCM (Lossless-Uncompressed)
#3 = Dolby TrueHD (Lossless-Compressed)*

* Because it often uses Dialog Normalization, Dolby TrueHD is ranked below DTS-HD MA. DTS-HD MA also tops out at a theorectical maximum of 24.5 mbps vs only 18.0 mbps for Dolby TrueHD.

P.S. I have removed all lossy codecs in my personall preference list.

Sorry for the belated response, I see this thread is now like 12 pages long and this is from page 8 or so. :P

Based on aural quality, dts HD MA and LPCM should be tied for #1 since dts HD MA is identical to the LPCM (just compressed). I do agree that Dolby TrueHD should be knocked down a peg for the dialog normalization issue (which can be corrected during authoring by simply not enabling/using it, but the only studio to do so I believe is Sony).

Why do you believe LPCM is higher on aural quality than dts HD Master Audio? And FWIW, while these codecs all have a max bitrate, I doubt they will ever approach it because then they'd be using more bitrate than LPCM (which defeats the purpose of compressing the data).