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In Reply to: DTS vs DD vs ? posted by tvnewsguy on August 23, 2002 at 08:15:55:
It depends on the mix, choices made my the engineer and whether or not DTS is true DTS or simply derived from (and degraded from) DD. Usually DTS sounds better, but there are times (the Recent Star Wars imports come to mind) when the DTS is so bad as to be an obvious fake.The reasons for DTS superious capabilities have to do with available bandwidth and sampling rates.
As an aside, DTS on DVD has the capability of being better than DTS Laserdisc. It virtually never is because of choices made in the production stage. That is the reason that the DTS Laser of Independence Day still brings close to $100 on eBay.
Where I have a DTS Laserdisc and a DTS DVD of the same film, the sound has always been better on Laser than on the DVD (using the same decoder). As to why the producers get away with this? I dunno. I have heard it hypothesised that LaserDisc buyers were more serious collectors and that DVD buyers are essentially the same people that created the Blockbuster weekend, but that seems a bit facile (and elitist) to me. I just wish they would spend the additional 2 cents and do it right. Or maybe they just doin't want to piss off Dolby Labs?
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Follow Ups
- DTS's capabilities are much better, however . . . - Auricle 05:46:53 08/25/02 (2)
- Re: DTS's capabilities are much better, however . . . - Joe Murphy Jr 12:49:10 08/25/02 (1)
- In a contentious mood, are we? - Auricle 09:05:14 08/26/02 (0)
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