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Ken_McAlinden · 06-30-2008, 10:08 AM

The DTS presentation was primarily a demonstration of the workings of their latest encoding software, which looked extremely efficient and virtually idiot proof given the complexity of options available. They started out with a slideshow primer on all of the various flavors of DTS used for home video, inclusive of the familiar 1509 kbps and 754 kbps varieties used on standard DVDs as well as the latest formats, represented in the extremes by the lossless DTS HD MA and by the very low bitrate variant (cannot remember the name) that is intended for applications such as secondary audio streams on Blu-Ray supplements.

We saw them do an encode from eight PCM files to a DTS-HD MA file with a DTS 1509 kbps core in real time, which was literally just a matter of a few minutes. They also demonstrated some of the features of the encoding software ranging from the obvious (selecting DTS "flavor", bitrates, and number of channels) to the more esoteric (specifying downmix parameters, isolating channels for monitoring before and after encoding).

The presentation was capped by a clip from the BD of Shoot 'em Up which sported a tear your head off DTS-HD MA track with lots of high volume activity in all 7.1 channels.

Regards,

06-30-2008, 10:08 AM	#2 of 9
Ken_McAlinden HTF Warner Brothers Reviewer Location: Livonia, MI USA Join Date: Feb 2001 Local Time: 12:31 AM Local Date: 11-19-2008 Posts: 6,162	Re: Comments on Panasonic or DTS presentation? The DTS presentation was primarily a demonstration of the workings of their latest encoding software, which looked extremely efficient and virtually idiot proof given the complexity of options available. They started out with a slideshow primer on all of the various flavors of DTS used for home video, inclusive of the familiar 1509 kbps and 754 kbps varieties used on standard DVDs as well as the latest formats, represented in the extremes by the lossless DTS HD MA and by the very low bitrate variant (cannot remember the name) that is intended for applications such as secondary audio streams on Blu-Ray supplements. We saw them do an encode from eight PCM files to a DTS-HD MA file with a DTS 1509 kbps core in real time, which was literally just a matter of a few minutes. They also demonstrated some of the features of the encoding software ranging from the obvious (selecting DTS "flavor", bitrates, and number of channels) to the more esoteric (specifying downmix parameters, isolating channels for monitoring before and after encoding). The presentation was capped by a clip from the BD of Shoot 'em Up which sported a tear your head off DTS-HD MA track with lots of high volume activity in all 7.1 channels. Regards, Ken McAlinden Livonia, MI USA