DTS-HD High Resolution - Are there any titles?

Re: DTS-HD High Resolution - Are there any titles?

From the top of my head, Stargate has a dts-HR track at 3.0Mbps as opposed to dts core at 1.5Mbps. There are some other titles I cannot recollect at this time.

Re: DTS-HD High Resolution - Are there any titles?

Basic Instinct has an DTS-HD track as well.

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I think THE HOST on HD DVD has one.

Re: DTS-HD High Resolution - Are there any titles?

What we used to call "full bitrate" is the minimum rate at which DTS-HD High Resolution tracks are encoded: 1.509 Mbps. They can be as high as 3.0 Mbps on HD DVD; 6.0 Mbps on BD.

Were you just curious to get some DTS-HD High Resolution discs so as to (dis)prove your "sneaking suspicion"? You're aware that the real hotness is DTS-HD Master Audio, which is lossless, and is on I think every Fox and MGM BD?

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A few early Lionsgate Blu titles have DTS-HR HD, Stargate, Total Recall, I can't recall the others.

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There are some titles on Blu-ray and HD-DVD in Europe that have DTS-HD High Resolution. This is just based on what I have found and does not mean that there are not any other titles out there.

French Release:
Basic Instinct - French DTS-HD High Resolution (HD-DVD)
Enemy At The Gates - French DTS-HD High Resolution: (HD-DVD)
La Vie En Rose - French DTS-HD High Resolution: (HD-DVD)

German Release:
Basic Instinct - German DTS-HD High Resolution (HD-DVD)
Fantastic Four - English & German DTS-HD High Resolution: (HD-DVD)
Fantastic Four: Rise Of The Silver Surfer - English & German DTS-HD High Resolution: (HD-DVD)
Laura Croft: Tomb Raider - English DTS-HD High Resolution (HD-DVD)
Silent Hill - English & German DTS-HD High Resolution: (HD-DVD)


Releases marked as DTS-HD with no Master Audio or High Resolution extension.

Alone In The Dark (German Release) HD-DVD
Band Of Brothers: Vol. 1-5 (Japanese Release) HD-DVD
Bridge To Terabithia (Italian Release) HD-DVD
Brotherhood Of The Wolf (UK Release) HD-DVD
Bug (German Release) HD-DVD
Crank (German Release) HD-DVD
Death At A Funeral (German Release) HD-DVD
Ghost Rider (French Release) HD-DVD
Hanibal Rising (Polish Release) HD-DVD
Hooligans (German Release) HD-DVD
Killing Me Softly (Japanese Release) HD-DVD
Perfume: The Story Of A Merderer (German Release) HD-DVD
Renaissance (German Release) HD-DVD
Resident Evil (German Release) HD-DVD
Resident Evil (Japanese Release) HD-DVD
Resident Evil:Apocalypse (German Release) HD-DVD
SAW (German Release) HD-DVD
1408 (USA ?) Blu-ray

There are a number of DTS-HD Master Audio titles on HD-DVD but no US releases.

US Blu-ray Releases w/DTS-HD High Resolution Audio
Rambo: First Blood
Reservoir Dogs
Young Guns
Stargate
Total Recall
Saw 2
Saw 3
Stir Of Echoes

Re: DTS-HD High Resolution - Are there any titles?

To clarify the BD50's audio capability, here's a copy of my amazon.com review:

3.0 out of 5 stars HD audio will still require a new receiver, July 18, 2008

I selected this blu-ray player over the competition specifically because it has built-in decoding for the latest high-definition audio formats. I continue to be happy with my ten-year-old Sony TAE-9000ES preamp, and the DMP-BD50 seemed to be the perfect way to get HD video and audio in one box. Not so. Although it will decode these formats (Dolby TrueHD, DTS-HD, etc), it can't pass the data through digital coax or fiber optic cables. For that, you need to have an HDMI cable and a receiver to plug it into. Had I known that, I would have bought an up-to-date preamp that had the HD audio decoding capability, and saved $400 by buying a DMP-BD30, which is just about identical to the BD50 except for the audio capabilities. On the video side, the BD50 seems to be a quite capable blu-ray player (the BD30 is similarly well-regarded, though.) Frankly, I don't understand why Panasonic decided to manufacture this player, or at the very least they should be much more clear about its actual capabilites in their marketing. Because it can't do what Panasonic implies, and because of its high premium over the BD30, I don't expect the much-anticipated BD50 to be on the market for long.


Also, I wouldn't agree that that BD50's SDVD performance is "mediocre." Perhaps it falls short on test and calibration discs, but for normal program content it seems fine to me, easily bettering my Toshiba SD9200...

Re: DTS-HD High Resolution - Are there any titles?

Stephen,

Check me if I'm wrong here, but the BD50 will not only decode the new audio formats to PCM (for the HDMI out) but also take the PCM hi-rez audio and put it out through the analog outs.

-R

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You are correct, Reagan.

First off, I don't quite understand why you're (re-)posting your BD50 review in this DTS-HD High Resolution thread. There are a couple BD50 threads for that.

Second, due to the increased bandwidth of the new lossless high resolution codecs, I don't think it was ever contemplated that legacy digital connectivity (coax, Toslink) would carry these signals. They're conveyed via either HDMI or analog connections. The latter is where the BD50 distinguishes itself versus the BD30: unlike the 30, the 50 does onboard decoding of DTS-HD MA. The real gimp of the 50 is not any purported mis-marketing by Pan; it is that, unlike the BD10 it only has 5.1 and not 7.1 analog outs.

And it bears repeating again that there really is no such thing as "DTS-HD" period. That's confusing shorthand that drops the appelation that should always follow it. It's either DTS-HD High Resolution (the DTS "equivalent" of Dolby Digital Plus; it is lossy) or DTS-HD Master Audio (the DTS "equivalent" of Dolby TruHD; it is lossless).

Re: DTS-HD High Resolution - Are there any titles?

I think a few of the early Paramount titles used DTS-HR even though they aren't labeled as such. Tomb Raider is one of them on HD-DVD although the BD may be the same.