New Dolby & DTS formats.....what's brown & sounds like a bell? Borrringgggg!

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Anyone else looked at Steve Guttenburg's comments on Chesky.com?
"Dolby actually has two separate surround formats--Dolby Digital Plus and TrueHD - the latter is a replacement for DVD-Audio. DTS' alternative has been dubbed DTS HD. Catch is, these formats won't flow through the upcoming Blu-ray or HD-DVD players' regular coaxial and optical digital outputs. Right now there's talk about sending the audio over the player's HDMI single wire audio & video connection, but the exact details of that transfer have yet to be worked out."
Frankly, I've stopped at 5.1 and have no intention of changing/upgrading for some time. These seem to me to be surround sound wars as damaging to the industry/hobby as the HD DVD wars (well, maybe slightly less).
Great for those that need to have/need to show off the latest and
greatest, but we are audio uber alles, and getting on every bandwagon
that pops up in HT is only an interesting branch in the overall tree to us.
Thoughts?
DrD

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Topic - New Dolby & DTS formats.....what's brown & sounds like a bell? Borrringgggg! - suburbanDK 18:56:48 12/29/05 (1)

dung - Joe Murphy Jr 09:41:24 12/31/05 (0)

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