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Originally posted by MCH:
It is possible that in the very near future with Blu Ray being released, that movie soundtracks could be done without lossy compression.


I wouldn't hold your breath. I doubt that the bitrate could never be high enough to accommodte the high defination video (which they would almost certainly be) and the audio. Uncompressed 24 bit 6 channel 48Khz sample rate audio has a bitrate of about 6.9 megabits per second. That's a good sized chunk of the entire 10 megabit per second data rate on current DVDS for video and audio. High defination video would without question need to be compressed and it's unlikely they would leave the audio uncompressed.

[This message has been edited by soundhound (edited February 08, 2003).]