High-Def Sound from High-Def DVDs

High-def DVDs aren’t just great visuals, they also serve up two new bit-for-bit sound formats – Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD Master Audio.


If a picture’s worth a thousand words, a high-definition movie may be worth, well, a whole lot more. But a good chunk of the praise for HD DVD and Blu-ray Disc high-definition DVD players has to go to the gut-wrenching soundtracks brought to life by next-generation Dolby and DTS surround-sound codecs that reel you in and keep you hooked.





Maybe you thought it didn’t get any better than the 5.1- or 6.1-channel soundtracks we’ve enjoyed with surround-sound encoding by Dolby and DTS. They were the best available for standard DVD. But the extra gigabytes of disc space on a Blu-ray or HD DVD disc not only provide more room for high-def video and cool interactive features but offer discrete 7.1-channel high-def sound, too. You can now for the first time get a bit-for-bit replica of the original soundtrack—without any compression.


For info on what to look for in surround-sound formats, check out [Link: electronichouse.com]