What's the point of Dolby Digital...

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when the soundtrack is 2.0 stereo? I have gotten several DVD's lately that are marked Dolby Digital but are in 2 channel stereo. There is not even a center channel signal for dialog. I don't see the point of Dolby Digital processing, if there is no surround sound or center channel. Might as well just have unprocessed 2 channel stereo, it seems to. All the Dolby Digital seems to do is take away the ability to use Prologic to get a center channel signal. Am I missing something?

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Topic - What's the point of Dolby Digital... - Tadlo 10:28:46 01/13/07 (7)

here's how to fix that - Joe Murphy Jr 18:44:12 01/13/07 (2)

and to answer your question - Joe Murphy Jr 10:43:29 01/14/07 (1)

Thanks for the information. - Tadlo 15:30:45 01/14/07 (0)

Re: What's the point of Dolby Digital... - newsjeff 18:09:06 01/13/07 (0)

Dolby Digital uses lossy compression - big space-savings (nt) - racerguy 13:08:07 01/13/07 (1)

and low quality sound - Joe Murphy Jr 18:35:29 01/13/07 (0)

marketing... - KT88 12:04:45 01/13/07 (0)

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