Video Asylum

Posted by Joe Murphy Jr (A) on January 26, 2008 at 18:31:38

In Reply to: RE: help me understand this posted by Jack G on January 26, 2008 at 15:33:55

>>>However, rather than upping the processing power to what would have been worse case scenario numbers, they made some poor decisions/estimations.<<<
They appear to do that alot. I confess, I do not understand the logic, unless they just said to hell with our current customers, make them buy another player. This is the kind of thing the BDA does that really pisses me off.

I was referring to the chip manufacturers (Sigma Designs and Broadcom), both of which make products for HD DVD player manufacturers (aka Toshiba) to use. It had nothing to do with the BDA.

Why couldn't the BDA tell Fox to hold off on DTS-MA until the CEs could get their act together?

Tell them, no: suggest that they use 5.1 PCM, yes. I doubt FOX would have listened, though (they're quite the renegades at that studio). Besides, FOX was probably under the impression that DTS-HD Master Audio decoding/bitstreaming would not be taking so long. Either way, FOX provide a DTS mix for early players and a lossless mix for current players that bitstream and future players that decode/bitstream the codec.

I can't decode (yet) or bitstream DTS-HD Master Audio with my PS3: however, I'm glad FOX encoded their titles with a lossless codec. They could have pulled a Warner Bros or Paramount and encoded their Blu-ray titles with lossy audio (and no way to get lossless audio, an upgrade, from those titles in the future).

IOW, everyone has to buy another BD player.

Only if you want to decode/bitstream DTS-HD Master Audio. Otherwise, you have a usually nice sounding DTS mix to listen to. Besides, going by what many of the HD DVD supporters have been saying for the past year, lossless audio isn't needed anyway.