DD vs. DTS

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  • landry_p2000
    landry_p2000 Posts: 1,313
    edited June 2005
    I love DTS, and I like Dolby Digital. Both are excellent for movies, DTS just seems a little louder. You get some movies and wonder; WTF?:confused: I will give you an example: Scarface. I think that the remastering in DTS for this movie SUCKED! Is it just me or did anyone else notice this? It was not what I expected at all. I guess that was the best that they could do with a film shot in 1983. The Lethal Weapon 1,2, & 3 director's cut also fit the bill for bad examples of DTS. Good examples to me would be: Blade II, Pitch Black, and The Fast Furious just to name a few. Over all I would play DD and DTS and enjoy them both.
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  • billbillw
    billbillw Posts: 6,879
    edited June 2005
    Originally posted by MSALLA
    So what is the best format?

    DTS has less compression, no doubt about it.

    Whether it sounds better on a given system will depend on the decoder and whether the mix was done well.
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  • PolkThug
    PolkThug Posts: 7,532
    edited June 2005
    Originally posted by MSALLA
    So what is the best format?

    When they put the sound onto DVD's in either format, a very large % of the original sound is left out.

    Things should get better with Dolby Digital Plus on HD-DVD's.
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