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In Reply to: RE: Hidef and audio/video bitrates posted by oscar on August 23, 2007 at 05:14:49
But HD DVD does support lossless audio, and your chances of encountering a movie which has it are apparently pretty good! Per the Wikipedia article (below), TrueHD is in fact lossless, multichannel audio, and it's a mandatory codec for HD DVD, but optional on Blu-Ray. Whether your particular setup allows you to actually hear the full-quality soundtrack is another matter: As I've been doing a bit of online research, it's become pretty apparent that until very recently, there were few home audio products which could decode the actual TrueHD audio: Sony's TrueHD-capable receivers don't ship until later this month.
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I'll point to "King Kong" again as the wouldbe reference disk without a reference audio track.
I thought all HD DVD players could decode TrueHD; maybe not the receiver. If you are using the player's 5.1 analog output, you are in business. My player will decode TrueHD (but only to 2-channel for HD DVD).
Just refer back to the Wikipedia article on TrueHD and look at the HD DVD movies that include it already: There's a fair number already released, or soon to be. Not so much in Blu-Ray because TrueHD support isn't mandatory there, so you need to select your B-D player with some care.
What's the big deal about "King Kong" anyway? Is it a great movie or something? I've never watched it myself and had no great desire to do so. If you say it has a mediocre soundtrack, I'll take your word for it, but I don't think that is an indictment against HD DVD, any more than a mediocre first release of "Fifth Element" was for Blu-Ray. You want to see compression artifacts, look at the banded sky in "Ice Age 2" on Blu-Ray. Better yet, don't bother because it wasn't that great a movie.
I've thought about using some analog connections between disk players and amplifiers, but some of the specs for those high-def players make me think there are weasel words in there, and that I might not have access to the highest quality signal unless I use HDMI 1.3x. Could be wrong, but since I'm starting the cinema sound system from scratch, I'm planning on using all-digital connections.
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That's actually a realizable expectation. Unlike with HD DVD.
If you look at the list of HD DVDs that don't have lossless, you'll see that in most cases, there was room, but the studio, for whatever reason, decided not to include it. Hell, how many Warner BDs are there without lossless?
Jack
Certainly the Studios could have have just demonstrated indifference to a lossless audio track. In which case, I'm less likely to buy that particular product in the hopes they'll release a "special edition" later on which does have the lossless audio track. I've burned enough times with doubledipping.
Yes, I own a few discs with only (gasp!) lossy audio track but that was to help build up a decent library and before I really understood what lossless audio can add to a movie watching experience. Of course, lossless audio is not so important for nature documentaries, really old "classic" movies, etc.
For an instant there I thought you were going to say "Unlike you with money and ladies"!
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