I keep hearing about DTS MA, this is not an anti BD post but I’m just curious what advantages it has over TrueHD or uncompressed. From what I gather TrueHD comes out identical to uncompressed and uncompressed is supposed to be source material. Everyone is screaming like it’s the greatest thing ever. Will J6P be able to tell the difference?
PS. Out of all the TrueHD I’ve heard plain ole DD+ on Transformers is by far the best audio I’ve heard in my life
DTS-HD MA allows slightly higher (as decoded) uncompressed streams at least on Blu-ray.
For equivalent high quality source materail DD+ does not match DD TrueHD.
The best I have heard was some Demo DTS-HD MA (blu-ray), but of course thats why they included it on the Demo. For movies we are of course limited to what quality audio they decided to save and include in the media.
DTS (CORE) is up to 1.5 Mbps and DD+ at least 3.0 Mbps(max 6.0) on HD-DVD but 1.7 Mbps on blu-ray (why lower?) sound way better than the old DD (480 Mpbs) on DVD. DTS-HD is 3.0 Mbps on HD-DVD but 6.0 Mbps on blu-ray (why higher?). DD True-HD is up to 18 Mbps. DTS-HD MA is up to 18 Mbps on HD DVD and 24.5 on Blu-ray (why higher?).
Not sure what the max uncompressed PCM is on Blu-ray. Uncompressed PCM, DTS-HD MA, or Dolby TrueHD are now common on Blu-Ray.