On Mar 16, 1:39 pm, "jeffc" <jeffc...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Getting into home theater can be a pretty bewildering experience, with
all
> the techonology, and changes, occurring now. Let's narrow it down to
just
> the audio ****tion, and just from Blu-Ray.
>
> There are basically 3 "high end" audio formats - DTS-MA and TrueHD
(lossless
> compressed), and PCM (uncompressed). And there are basically 2 ways to
get
> the compressed ones - bitstreamed from your player and decoded in your
> receiver, or decoded in your player. Is one or the other of the formats
> better, and is decoding preferrable on the player or the reciever?
>
> For the other formats, how much better are these? Is "core" DTS a lot
> better than regular Dolby 5.1? Is DTS-MA a lot better than core DTS?
Or
> are these pretty subtle differences?
>
> In most cases there isn't much choice. A Blu-Ray might only have Dolby
and
> TrueHD. Or PCM and Dolby. Is there a benefit to favoring one format
over
> another when selecting your equipment, considering you usually can't
have
> everything?
Jeffc,
My receiver will not handle TrueHD so I cannot comment much on that.
BUT I recently just watched Live Free or Die Hard. It had both a DTS
and a Dolby Digital track. Until this movie I had never really bought
into the DTS is "better", thinking both are really good and it depends
on who is doing the mixing etc... I will say however the DTS track on
THIS particular Blu-Ray title is probably the most amazing sound track
I have heard. The LFE is unbelievable. My sub was rocking like it
has never done before. The DD sounded good but on this one movie I
can say the DTS was really impressive.
I'm now looking for more movies with both encoding to do some head to
heads with....
Bates....
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