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As far as I'm concerned, there are already audible differences when movie releases are examined as a whole.

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In Reply to: RE: As prices come down on the PS3 & more blu-ray games and movies come out, that hope will come to fruition posted by Jazz Inmate on September 18, 2007 at 17:29:39

Less than 15% of HD DVDs have lossless audio tracks. Some will blame this on HD DVD studio indifference to lossless audio, but they'll have to start proving it's not a bandwidth limitation issue (and/or storage issue) by combining pristine video with lossless audio on their blockbuster releases.

The list of Blu-ray music videos with 5.1 24/96 lossless audio tracks is still fairly small but it's growing and the number of releases is a non-zero quantity unlike HD DVD.

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Regarding The Video Music BDs - Robertc88 06:26:31 09/19/07 (2)
Chris Botti, Dave Matthews, Legends of Jazz, etc. Have you done any comparisons with DVD-A per se? I wondering how the sound compares.

I'm more intrigued with high def because of the audio. The video is nice but if one is use to upconverted SD DVD on something like an Oppo, I don't feel there will be a large difference in quality with lots of these high def titles (ie. 1080i versus 1080p).

Maybe I'm getting my hopes up too high and perhaps the audio isn't a vast upgrade than what is on some of the better SD DVDs already released? Perhaps it is a matter of one's equipment to note a vast difference?
- If you can hear a difference between lossy and lossless on movie tracks - oscar 06:39:22 09/19/07 (1)
  You'll definitely hear it between lossy DVD music videos and lossless HD media music videos. I don't have enough source material to make a real comparion between DVD-A and and 5.1 24/96 lossless blu-rays. I'd expect the same source material released on both at the same resolution will sound the same (TrueHD dialog normalization BS might screw it up).
  - The Movie I Want To Get For The Audio - Robertc88 07:21:29 09/20/07 (0)
    Is "Immortal Beloved". The audio is something that needs to be heard from what I'm reading. Unfortunately, there has been a long wait on Netflix for this title. It looks like an outright buy if I ever would want to experience it in the near future.
doubt you'll see it - Joe Murphy Jr 20:33:04 09/18/07 (0)
Even with the new "approved" triple-layer discs, storage capacity may be up but bandwidth hasn't budged. It's also kind of interesting that Toshiba hasn't outright made a statement as to the ability of today's players to actually play triple-layer discs. You'd think that they would have tested this already. I guarantee that the line from HD DVD fans will be something along the lines of "Oh, well. That's the price early adopters have to pay. I'll just get a new player to play the triple-layer discs. HD DVD players are cheap, anyway." if those discs, should they ever make it out of the lab, refuse to play (thus rationalizing their "investment" and quietly dismissing the crap they threw at Blu-ray owners for purchasing -- incorrectly -- so-called "obsolete" Profile 1.0 players).

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