Difference between DTS/DD/Dolby Surround/Prologic

Posted by SMR [WizOp] [IP: 194.128.83.228] on June 10, 1999 at 19:13:53
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In Reply to: Difference between DTS/DD/Dolby Surround/Prologic posted by Rakesh Malik on June 01, 1999 at 09:34:35:

Rakesh,

: The compression has not changed, it was an encoding problem; the DVD players do need updating, but the same decoders still work.

Not everything DTS tells consumers is entirely true, this being one of those times. DTS from music discs and laserdiscs doesn't contain any identifying bitstream flags, other than one to fool transports into thinking it's a valid PCM format. DTS from DVD does include syntax flags so that the DTS information can be found by the player within the MPEG multiplex, but unfortunately these flags are unrecognised by early DTS decoders and the bitstream rejected because of this.

Many manufacturers of older DTS equipment have had to make hardware changes, Millennium being the worst hit by DTS' lack of engineering savvy.

Stuart.

Follow Ups:

• Difference between DTS/DD/Dolby Surround/Prologic - Rakesh Malik 19:57:11 06/10/99 (2)
  • Difference between DTS/DD/Dolby Surround/Prologic - SMR [WizOp] 18:23:32 06/11/99 (1)
    • Difference between DTS/DD/Dolby Surround/Prologic - Rakesh Malik 19:03:08 06/13/99 (0)

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