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 Posted by Lloyd Parsons on 11/09/07 18:00 
In article <fh29e402ad0@enews4.newsguy.com>, 
 willbill <trek@worldwide.net> wrote: 
 
> Lloyd Parsons wrote: 
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> > In article <fh18a811nm8@enews2.newsguy.com>, 
> >  willbill <trek@worldwide.net> wrote: 
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> >>i'm happy with the video that my upscaling 
> >>OPPO provides from standard DVD movies 
> >> 
> >>with either HD-DVD or BD, is the multichannel 
> >>sound that much better? 
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> > On those movies that have a lossless track, the difference often is  
> > amazing.  Unfortunately not all movies are quite up to that standard. 
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> fwiw, i've looked at maybe 20 different titles 
> (on both formats; total of 40), and have yet 
> to see anything other than the standard DD 
> hi def multichannel sound 
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> btw, thanks for the response.  :) 
> i guess i'll have to keep looking at the hi def 
> movie disks that show up in the stores coz that's 
> the one thing that would get my interest/dollars. 
> unfortunately, it appears to be last on the list 
> of things that will be done for hi def movie disks 
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> my gold standard for multichannel sound continues 
> to be the SACD audio disks that my OPPO can play 
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> bill 
 
Lionsgate tends to use DTS-ES on many titles.  Fox uses DTSHD-MA, which  
no player decodes yet.  There are a few (damn few) titles with 6.1 or  
7.1 LPCM on BluRay.  And TrueHD is there on a very few HDDVD and BluRay  
discs. 
 
Pretty sad overall though, as you noticed.
 
  
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