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Originally posted by soundhound:
I've posted this before, but in case anybody missed it, here it is again:

What Dolby Digital Doesn't Want You To Hear!

This is a snippet from the master of a piece of music on the LEFT channel, and the identical snippet from the resulting DVD after Dolby Digital encoding/decoding with the original master subtracted, on the RIGHT channel. The result is what was REMOVED by the Dolby Digital process. You can hear that as the music gets more complex, the amount of "removed" material increases.

The DTS process works basically the same way, the difference being in the degree of material removed.

Give me uncompressed, please




I agree that uncompressed is preferable, but don't mistake DTS's high data rate for more data. It's quite likely from our findings that DTS simply uses a less efficient coder than Dolby's.

For instance, let's say that I had 1 GB of data, and I run it through two compression algorithms: A and B.

Algorithm A compresses very efficiently, and the resulting data is .4 GB.

Algorithm B is less efficient, though no more accurate, and compresses the same data down to .7 GB.

Does this make B a "better" algorithm than A? If you work for DTS's marketing department, it does.

Jeff