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no lossless or uncompressed pcm

Posted by Joe Murphy Jr (A) on April 14, 2007 at 13:04:50

In Reply to: Nonsense posted by Jack G on April 14, 2007 at 06:56:59:

King Kong is considered a reference for video quality (though I have seen a few posts at AVS pointing out problems with the video), but DD+ is not reference audio. Granted, King Kong is a long movie, but it pretty much maxes out HD DVD's capacity and doesn't allow for a reference quality audio track to go along with the video. What happens when we get into 7.1 channels of audio instead of just 5.1? As it is, most of the Dolby TrueHD lossless tracks -- which there aren't too many of on HD DVD -- are 16/48 (not 20/48 or 24/48), because even the lossless audio codecs push the bitrate of HD DVD into the red zone if other features are included (PiP, commentaries, interactive features, etc) along with the movie.

And, yes, I realize that many Blu-ray titles with uncompressed LPCM are 16/48 (mostly Sony, but they will be using Dolby TrueHD in the near future and it will be 20/48 or 24/48 encoded). But at least they are uncompressed, not lossy.

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