DTS MA-HD: What's the big deal?

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Originally Posted by PeterTHX

Untrue. Dolby TrueHD uses the MLP codec, which is more efficient and compresses better than DTS-MA (think WinZip vs WinRAR), and the legacy Dolby track uses 640kbps, vs DTS' 1.5Mbps. TrueHD frequently dips below 1.5Mbps on a lot of titles, whereas DTS-MA can never do this because of their core track. ALL studios, even Fox, want a Dolby track on there for compatibility with the millions of TVs & processors that cannot handle DTS in any form...and for functional reasons, like Night Mode, which DTS has yet to provide.

The Dolby TrueHD compression scheme might be more efficient then the one used by DTS-HD MA but is'nt that nullified by also having to include a seperate Dolby Digital legacy soundtrack in the case of Dolby TrueHD?

Thank God DTS does'nt have "Night Mode" which is similar to Dialog Normalization.

As for FOX using Dolby Digital... not according to the specs on the High Def Digest reviews (except for foreign language tracks).

I'm limiting myself to 4 examples... their probably all the same:

http://bluray.highdefdigest.com/1083...nbreak_s1.html

http://bluray.highdefdigest.com/613/irobot.html

http://bluray.highdefdigest.com/565/iceage.html

http://bluray.highdefdigest.com/627/...fandirene.html

And then there's this release from New Line:

http://bluray.highdefdigest.com/994/hairspray2007.html

The ONLY audio codec on this high profile release is DTS-HD MA 7.1

If the details provided by HDD above are wrong... then please correct me.