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Joe Murphy Jr

In Reply to: RE: You can still get Dolby Digital and DTS via optical. posted by Prisoners on June 19, 2011 at 13:16:04

That wasn't my point in the least.

He said he'd lose surround sound via optical and I corrected that misunderstanding: he'd only lose the capability of lossless surround playback (provided his player even supported lossless codec capability), not lossy surround playback.

Never bust anyones' balls for giving you better quality, especially when it comes to the movie studios. Remember that format called DVD? They dicked us with lossy audio crap -- Dolby Digital. Now we're getting lossless 24/48 DTS-HD Master Audio as the de facto audio codec for Blu-ray. Don't bitch about whether or not people can tell the difference.

Let me ask you this question. If you have lossless codec capability in your system, do you switch to the lossy audio track when you watch a Blu-ray movie? After all, "it hardly makes a difference", right?

Follow Ups:

Easy tiger.... - Prisoners 18:40:30 06/19/11 (1)
I was only trying to point out to the OP that he can use the optical cable and still get multi-channel audio. Of course lossless is preferred, but the optical is better than nothing, and as you point out he may not have the ability to use the lossless option anyway. I wasn't critiquing your statement in the least.
Baba-Booey to you all!
- not trying to argue, but... - Joe Murphy Jr 21:20:28 06/19/11 (0)
  "I was only trying to point out to the OP that he can use the optical cable and still get multi-channel audio."
  
  Didn't I already say that?
  
  "Via optical, all but the lossless surround (DTS-HD Master Audio Dolby TrueHD) and uncompressed surround (5.1/7.1 PCM) formats will be transmitted. In the case of the lossless surround formats, the lossy version will be transmitted via optical."

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