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Re: Is it necessary to buy DVD with DTS, Dolby, etc. decoding....

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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.

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