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Dave Moritz wrote: >>My system is good enough to be able to tell the difference between DD and DTS on most movies. It is not an assumtion and it is my opinion as well that matters to me as well. So the comment regarding assumptions is out line IMHO. And the differences I find are audible and...

Richard wrote: >>could you tell the maximum bit rate and highest number of channels that DD+ can support in the candidate ATSC standard>Since the audio and video over HDMI is sent in uncompressed form it will not restrict what codec can be used. Another advantage is that video consoles and...

>>there has to be backward compatibility with all that hardware already out there and that means Dolby Digital

>>Shouldn't there be enough disc capacity for full bitrate 5 channel 96/24 PCM sound?

Richard wrote: >>Roger, since the ATSC candidate standard already mentioned that DD+ could support up to 14 channels could you confirm that the DD+ standard submitted for HD-DVD would have the same capability?>Would DD+ have a maximum bit rate of up to 6 Megabits as this article states? Also...

Kevin wrote: >>Any idea about DD+? Just a software upgrade, or hardware too? Or too soon to tell?

Dave Moritz wrote: >>When dvd came into being Dolby was chosen IMHO because of there low data rate. Not necicerily because they had the best sound.

Shane wrote: >> So what you are saying is that for me to take full effect of DD+, I would need a decoder available to decode DD+ right?

Shane wrote: >> 5.1 Ex is technically a backwards compatible thing but if you don't have the extra channel then you get plain vanilla 5.1. Is this the case for this new DD+?>I think that Dolby is kidding themselves if they think they can provide a superior format with more compression. Or if...

Kevin wrote: >>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?

Marty asked: >>doesn't the reference to "enhanced decoder's ability" imply that we will need a new decoder to take advantage of the enhanced features?

Shawn wrote: >>So sound quality will remain the same but the way it is coded will change. Does that mean it will be more compressed? Or does it not matter?>I'm hoping one day they will bring a set of standards to the quality of audio and video reproduction. that way dvd players will have an...

Andrew wrote: >>I find it interesting that now that Dolby's a publicly traded company that we're likely going to see more and more of these new formats as they do what they can to up market share and keep people buying licenses from them...