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In Reply to: Re: Thanks for the reply Doug but .... posted by Dave on July 27, 2002 at 13:37:00:
The DD bitrate is slightly higher on LD than DVD - try listening to the same material in both formats, you should hear a significant improvement with LD, especially in respect to "venue" or the ambient sound of the recording.Actually it's the other way 'round. The maximum DD bitrate on DVD is slightly higher than LD (448K vs. 384K)
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Though DVD can have a higher rate than LD, it virtually never does. In general, I find the sound of DTS on Laser much better (and I do mean much) than DVD.As for DD, on many Lasers I find myself choosing the Dolby Surround track, simply because it has less irritating timbre modifications.
---> The maximum DD bitrate on DVD is slightly higher than LD (448K vs. 384K)Technically correct, however, only a few music-oriented DVDs like James Taylor Live at the Beacon are mastered at 448K bit rate - almost all 5.1 movies are 384K bit rate. Mono movies on DVD can be mastered as low as 91K bit rate (Gary Reber's "thin, compressed mono") and 5.1 downmixes are typically 256Kb. LDs always use the full 384K bit rate and are processed internally at a full 20 bits with 16/44 output instead of DVD's 18 bit internal -16/48 output which gives subjectively better sound.
Numbers aside and all things being equal, LDs sound better than DVDs when replaying 5.1 DD surround.
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