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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
>
> 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
>
> my gold standard for multichannel sound continues
> to be the SACD audio disks that my OPPO can play
>
>
> 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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