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Yeah. A volume knob. :frowning: Seriously, when the soundtrack is DTS it will read "NOT AVAILABLE" when selected. A serious shortcoming at times. Even the best of receivers. If DTS hadn't been in such a hurry to compete with Dolby on the home front maybe they would have added it. I blame...

Well well well. New firmware update for the Sony BDP-S1 will add Dolby Digital Plus and... ...wait for it... Dolby TrueHD. Pioneer's new BD player will support TrueHD and include a new version of Superman Returns (& Ghost Rider Extended Cut)! If they can't even update the PS3 yet...

Shawn: ^^^ What he said. Plus I like being able to use things like "night mode". Not everyone can watch their movies full-bore at any time of day/night. Right now I have to fumble with the volume control whenever I'm watching any Fox BD title late at night. I'm not the only one in this...

Well the studios see value in DN and even DTS saw fit enough to add it to their HD solutions (again, copying Dolby).

Well it seems Dolby has been the one innovating and DTS the follow-up. Dolby: AC-3 Theatrical 1991 DTS: Theatrical 1993 (forced by Universal on "Jurassic Park") Dolby: AC-3 LaserDiscs 1995 DTS: DTS LDs 1996 (again, Universal) Dolby: DD mandatory on DVD, ready for launch 1996-97 DTS: not...

DTS = The Bose of compression.

We've also established that a TrueHD & 640 DD core track is still smaller and more efficient than a DTS-MA track core or not. There are times when the TrueHD track on Letters From Iwo Jima dips below 1Mbit. How is that less efficient than a DTS track running a MINIMUM of 1.5Mbps?

News today: DTS to Demonstrate Master Audio Blu-ray Disc DTS will be demonstrating their lossless audio solution, DTS-HD Master Audio (MA), for the first time at Computex in Taipei, Taiwan. They will make use of a high-end desktop PC and Blu-ray drive to show off their accomplishment...

Whaaaa? You're mixing up DD+ I'm guessing. TrueHD is advanced Meridian Lossless Packing. Nothing is thrown away. Fact are most BD players out there support it, it has low CPU overhead, and it WORKS.

Cees, you gave me a thought. I know it's probably not true, but what if the additional cost Fox charges is for DTS-MA? I bet that would get everyone's feathers ruffled. :P

I support the choice between TrueHD and PCM! :D

^^^^ Ahem. Blu-ray thread.

It's about support, it's about efficiency, and it's about lower CPU/DSP cycles. All are in favor of TrueHD.

Interesting note on TrueHD's greater efficiency: Watching Letters From Iwo Jima and the bitrate meter for the TrueHD track is typically between 1-2 Mbps with 3+Mbps peaks. Quiet dialogue scenes dip well below the DTS core of 1.5 Mbps. With several years of lossless audio compression...

Hardware wise. Software wise they probably won't.

TrueHD is a couple megabits more efficient than MA, so with or without the 640 track it is STILL more efficient. CPU efficiency is also a concern. PowerDVD supports TrueHD. I doubt there's a PC out there that could decode a high bitrate title in AVC or VC-1 *and* a DTS-MA track at the same time.

I'm not worried about space at all, witness Sony's plan to include *both* PCM and TrueHD on several upcoming releases, starting with the current Stomp The Yard. DTS-MA itself takes up more space irregardless of the core. Plus it takes a *massive* amount of CPU horsepower to decode. TrueHD...

DD at 640 is less efficient than a DTS core at 1.5? DTS-MA takes up more space than Dolby TrueHD, core or not. If anything, Fox can at least use LPCM. Dolby TrueHD has more options than DTS-MA, is tried and tested, and works beautifully.