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there's that and there's sometimes more capacity is more flexibility and content

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In Reply to: RE: And sometimes bigger is just...bigger posted by 4season on August 20, 2007 at 20:12:02

Jack still hasn't said whether The Prestige HD DVD import has LPCM audio. The blu-ray sure does. If even one blu-ray title gets LPCM that would on HD DVD get TrueHD, that justifies the format right there AFAIC. And I suspect it will impact much more than one title.

bonus content is another consideration (granted, I mainly care about the movie).

The bottom line is that we don't know what content or features are coming from filmmakers. One probability is 7.1 audio. Ok, most people don't care about that, but my point is that we have one format with significantly greater flexibility and capacity to handle more content. Even if you guys don't believe that greater bitrates translate to greater quality (which should seem obvious), you have to admit it provides greater capacity and greater flexibility and therefore is the better format.
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To answer your question... - Jack G 08:25:09 08/21/07 (1)
Sorry, I decided to watch a movie.:-)
No there isn't lossless on there, but with 7 Gigs left there could have been. The *chose* not to have it, not for any technical limitations.
Jack
- If true, that would be good reason to avoid that particular movie release - oscar 08:31:04 08/21/07 (0)
  And wait for the next "special edition" with the "new and improved" lossless soundtrack.
Mostly we keep coming back to the same old argument - 4season 23:03:36 08/20/07 (1)
I'm more interested in what the formats deliver right now, and in the next few months, because who can predict much beyond that?

I'm still struggling in figuring out how I could accomodate a 5.1 channel sound system in a way that both sounds and looks good; 7.1 is probably not going to happen anytime soon. I don't generally like panned front-to-rear sound effects like those in the early Star Wars movies: Too distracting.
- Features Are Available To Take Advantage Of - Robertc88 08:14:46 08/21/07 (0)
  Whether the individual takes advantage of it is up to them. Most more than likely will not have all the equipment necessary to take full advantage.
  
  Let's take SD DVD. Some folks just hook it straight to the TV for the sound. For SACD, most discs come with a multichannel track for which most don't take advantage of.

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