Dolby True HD Track on Dark Knight? (2 Viewers)

[JediFonger]

hmmm, just tried it myself last night, i guess i must've missed that button. i expected the audio button to be huge... not hidden =P. sorry =P

 

[John H Ross]

Well I've been "fighting" against Warner's ridiculous habbit of not including proper audio menus since I found out about it.

It's ridiculous.

Not only is it needlessly inconvenient, but it also distracts your attention away from the film AND causes a momentary audio drop-out while the sound track changes (audio dropouts are normally cause for a recall yet WB now require us to create our own sound glitches!)

And now, not surprisingly it seems there are large numbers of people who don't even know they're not listening to the HD track by default.

This is no longer funny, WB. Why can't you just do it "properly" like every other studio? Why do you have to be "clever"?

Anyway, my signature says it all.

 

[ManW_TheUncool]

Someone pointed this out (elsewhere?) earlier, and maybe he/she was right. Maybe this whole issue is why some studios opted to go w/ DTS-HD/MA instead of Dolby TrueHD (or MPCM). DTS-HD/MA certainly simplifies the whole matter as long as players fully support it, which was not the case w/ some old players. Of course, there would still be the small issue that some folks never owned a sound system that could properly handle lossy DTS -- but maybe those folks would either be more willing to upgrade or simply not care (as long as they can get downmixed stereo or DPL).

_Man_