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Good point. "Different" doesn't necessarily mean better or worse.

Lewis- So I was half right. ;) Thanks for the correction!

I believe that full bit rate DTS is 750-ish, and 1/2 rate is 384 or so. 1.5Mb/s is LPCM (1.411 or something), and I don't think DTS goes anywhere near that. Not for movie soundtracks anyway.

It's funny, but I had thought that the DD vs DTS debate had long ago been decided in favor of the respective mix and not the encoding algorythm itself. :) (I do listen to both, depending on which soundtrack it is.) And even though DTS promotes the higher bit rate capability, the truth is, that a...

Roger- Maybe an unanswerable question at this point, but: I remember when DPL II came out, that most software upgradeable components also required a chip swap. Any idea about DD+? Just a software upgrade, or hardware too? Or too soon to tell? :)

Roger- Thanks! :)

I read the announcement, but I couldn't even figure out the following (but maybe at least one of my questions was answered up above): 1) Does it allow for similar compression as now but better audio quality? 2) 5.1, or is there any ability to do 6.1 or 7.1 discrete channels? (I have...