audio quality

Posted by Joe Murphy Jr (A) on April 14, 2007 at 18:06:09

In Reply to: Re: no lossless or uncompressed pcm posted by Jack G on April 14, 2007 at 17:00:42:

Do you know for a fact they couldn't fit lossless audio on, or just didn't bother?"

Kong came in at 27.4GB total, so no lossless.

I have to disagree/agree with the "...and Warner is, but apparently not for BD." comment. I disagree that audio quality is a high priority at WB: their use of analog watermarking for DVD-A and insistance on Dolby Digital (instead of DTS) for DVD-V pretty much cements that issue in my opinion.

And as for WB audio on Blu-ray, I agree 100% with you on that one. Several of their 50GB releases have done no better than 640kb/s Dolby Digital, as opposed to an uncompressed LPCM soundtrack or a lossless codec (which we all know would be Dolby TrueHD due to the fact that the two have been in a virtual software/codec 69 suck-off for the last decade... eeewww!). It really makes no sense because providing an uncompressed LPCM soundtrack would cost them absolutely nothing to use! And that same LPCM soundtrack could be used for the Dolby TrueHD encoding for an HD DVD lossless soundtrack. Of course, they'd have to give Dolby some head... er, royalties for using it.

Remember, your average smhmoe thinks MP3s sound good.

Yes, so true and so sad.

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Topic - Samsung to make dual player - Jack G 05:04:20 04/13/07 (20)

Universal is the only major studio not releasing blu-ray at the moment - Jazz Inmate 10:36:55 04/13/07 (18)

Not likely any time soon, if ever. - Jack G 11:32:43 04/13/07 (17)

Blu-Ray needs to win this fight. - oscar 06:29:58 04/14/07 (16)

Nonsense - Jack G 06:56:59 04/14/07 (15)

no lossless or uncompressed pcm - Joe Murphy Jr 13:04:50 04/14/07 (4)

I'd want the HD video with uncompressed 24/192 or SACD 5.1 audio tracks. - oscar 09:07:26 04/16/07 (0)

Re: no lossless or uncompressed pcm - Jack G 17:00:42 04/14/07 (2)

audio quality - Joe Murphy Jr 18:06:09 04/14/07 (1)

We are basically in agreement. - Jack G 08:46:02 04/15/07 (0)

So you don't think the extra storage space is needed ? - oscar 07:20:33 04/14/07 (9)

No - Jack G 11:15:45 04/14/07 (4)

I don't expect "new" BD movies to NOT work on "old" BD players. - oscar 11:23:27 04/14/07 (3)

Unknown - Jack G 11:47:19 04/14/07 (2)

Re: Unknown - oscar 19:10:25 04/14/07 (1)

Re: Unknown - Jack G 08:11:02 04/15/07 (0)

BR MAY be theoretically superior, but I consider Sony the Microsoft of consumer electronics--a monopolistic bully... - jeffreybehr 10:42:30 04/14/07 (3)

Easy solution: Just don't buy Sony hardware or Microsoft products. - oscar 11:16:18 04/14/07 (2)

Re: Easy solution: Just don't buy Sony hardware or Microsoft products. - dbphd 11:34:22 04/15/07 (1)

Since you brought it up, I've been blessed with having to work in a Unix environment. - oscar 16:37:39 04/15/07 (0)

Better link - Jack G 05:15:53 04/13/07 (0)

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audio quality - Joe Murphy Jr 18:06:09 04/14/07 (1)

We are basically in agreement. - Jack G 08:46:02 04/15/07 (0)

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