Re: Best sound from Blu-Ray

On Sun, 16 Mar 2008 21:30:13 -0700, jamesgangnc wrote
(in article <frks4l031ir@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>):

> "jeffc" <jeffc226@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
> news:frjm0u026f0@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> 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?
>> 
> I prefer dts to dolby.  But many discs don't have dts.

Most people who have heard both agree that DTS is superior to Dolby.