In Reply to: RE: Not so interesting blu audio poll posted by Jack G on May 20, 2009 at 10:22:19:
they don't use Dialnorm."
That's one of the problems with the codec: except for Sony Pictures, nearly every other studio uses Dialog Normalization. Actually, it's probably unintentional as the Dialog Normalization numbers are nearly always -27dB, the default setting, for movies from studios using Dolby's encoders. If more audio engineers really paid attention to this, we'd see more variances. Most people who have a problem with Dolby TrueHD would "forgive 'n forget" if Dolby would just come clean and say "Hey, we fucked up. Severely. From now on our encoder will default to lossless, instead of lossy, and we're going to reconfigure current in-use decoders, for free, for the studios using them. We're even going to lock the encoders at Wrnr Brs to Dialog Normalization OFF/-31dB."
The other problem is that studios using Dolby TrueHD are more likely to stick to 5.1 audio, whereas studios using DTS-HD Master Audio show more support for 7.1 soundtracks.
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