From now on, I won't buy anymore BDs with no lossless audio

[McCrutchy]

So I'm noticing a disturbing trend lately, first we have Uncle Buck and The Blues Brothers with DTS 2.0 and 5.1, respectively, then we have Halloween II with DTS 5.1, and now it appears that Tom and Jerry: The Golden Collection Vol. 1 will have Dolby Digital Mono. This is quite an upsetting development.

I know there are a couple threads about the Universal releases, but I just wanted to say that, in general, from now on, I will not support any release without lossless audio, especially one from a major studio.

Now, there are always a lot of people--and I bet that they'll show up here--who are fine with lossy audio on a BD released in 2011. Why exactly, I don't know, and I suppose many people have not yet experienced lossless due to the age of their systems, but the fact remains that without lossless audio, Blu-ray consumers are being cheated out of the aural experience Blu-ray can deliver, and it's simply not appropriate. Lossless audio should be as standard for Blu-ray audio as 1080 resolution is for Blu-ray video.

Another thing: If the movie was mixed in mono or stereo, you can deliver a mono or stereo lossless track, it doesn't have to be 7.1 or 5.1. So if the problem stems from the expense of re-rendering a 5.1 re-mix in lossless, then please just deliver the original audio in lossless; I would prefer this in the first place, anyway.