dts versus digital dolby 5.1

Think they are probably so similar it's not worth trying to find out what's different from them. Though, I've always picked DTS over Dolby Digital, as usually DTS is a bonus on a movie, not as common.

On new HD-DVDs with Dolby Digital Plus, using regular Dolby Digital from that can be even better than DVD as it's taken from the higher-quality track that has a greater bitrate than that of Dolby Digital on DVDs. I don't mention blu-ray as I don't know how that works and Dolby Digital Plus is not as common with the uncompressed PCM they often use.

Any difference you hear, orthink you hear,between a DDS or DTS track is more likely attributed to the master used, the mastering process, and / orthe decoder rather than the superiority of one format over the other.

Sometimes the DTS track sounds better, other times the DDS track sounds better. Most of the time, though, there's not a significant difference between the two.

I personally prefer DTS, because it sounds clearer and richer to my ears especially when watching HD DVD's with my 360 add-on. Full bitrate DD is at 640 kbpswhile DTS is 1.5mbps.

I still can't wait to buy my Panasonic BD player. It does both Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD, but alas no DTS-HD MA.

I personally prefer DTS, because it sounds clearer and richer to my ears especially when watching HD DVD's with my 360 add-on. Full bitrate DD is at 640 kbpswhile DTS is 1.5mbps.

I still can't wait to buy my Panasonic BD player. It does both Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD, but alas no DTS-HD MA.

BadAndy642

Does that Blu-ray player have 5.1 analog out for that internal decoding, or does it do uncompressed PCM over HDMI to a compatible HDMI receiver? An Onkyo 605 receiver for $399 on sale online can decode all that stuff through HDMI, that way you don't have to rely on the player. Also, when you get Dolby Digital Plus, I think that's 4.5mbps, and since on HD-DVD the Dolby Digital is pulled out of the core of that, it can be better quality than the normal DVD.

Some Blu Ray players have Analog 5.1 outs, and for the most part all of them are now being able to decode TrueHD or DTSHD internally. Dolby Digital Plus right now tops out at 1.5mbps (on HD DVD, but has the potential to go up to 3.5mbps). Where as Blu Ray lacks Dolby Digital Support (i think). Which is why all of the Dolby tracks, unless its TrueHD are 640kbps on Blu Ray. Which isn't much of an improvment over the 448kbps tracks on DVDs. Its actually less than the DTS tracks current on DVDs which are 768kbps.BlacKJaCK2290

Forgive me for getting my numbers wrong.

Yes, a lot of reviews at Hidefdigest.com for the same movie on both formats the HD-DVD can often get one extra star for audio due to certain situations like that.

I haven't given up the first Toshiba HD-DVD HD-A1 player since it has 5.1 analog out and internal decoding, which they added Dolby TrueHD 5.1 in a later firmware update.

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I personally prefer DTS, because it sounds clearer and richer to my ears especially when watching HD DVD's with my 360 add-on. Full bitrate DD is at 640 kbpswhile DTS is 1.5mbps.

I still can't wait to buy my Panasonic BD player. It does both Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD, but alas no DTS-HD MA.

TimothyB

Does that Blu-ray player have 5.1 analog out for that internal decoding, or does it do uncompressed PCM over HDMI to a compatible HDMI receiver? An Onkyo 605 receiver for $399 on sale online can decode all that stuff through HDMI, that way you don't have to rely on the player. Also, when you get Dolby Digital Plus, I think that's 4.5mbps, and since on HD-DVD the Dolby Digital is pulled out of the core of that, it can be better quality than the normal DVD.

It will do uncompressed PCM over HDMI, but it also has internal decoding with 7.1 analog out. Which is good for me since I have a Onkyo 504. The Panny also has DVD-Audio playback, but no SACD (Which is all right since I have7 DVD-A titles and only 1 SACD title)