In Reply to: Is it necessary to buy DVD with DTS, Dolby, etc. decoding.... posted by indy on March 9, 2001 at 12:13:54:
The basic answer is no.It gets more complicated than this though. Typically as you ascend up the line of a company's DVD Players, you end up getting more and more features thrown into the DVD Player. Entry level machines will only have digital output capability for DD/DTS bitstreams.
Mid-level machines will sometimes toss in a DD decoder. Some mid level machines also toss in the DTS decoder.
In terms of sonic performance, I definitely prefer the results using my pre/pros DD/DTS decoders.
Hope this helped rather than added to your confusion.
Regards,
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- Re: Is it necessary to buy DVD with DTS, Dolby, etc. decoding.... - kotches 12:37:10 03/09/01 (1)
- I think I got it. Thanks. - indy 15:12:23 03/09/01 (0)