Paramount Makes Move To DTS-HD Master Audio

[GlocksRock]

Dance Flick Is The First Paramount Movie To Have DTS-HD Master Audio


http://www.dvdactive.com/news/releases/dance-flick.html



Does This Mean We Will Get Transformers 2 In DTS-HD Master Audio?!

 

[AcuDefTechGuy]

Hopefully.

My brother does not have a TrueHD receiver. So the other day when he was watching Transformers BD, he could only get 2.0 Stereo English soundtrack since it does NOT contain an English 5.1 DD soundtrack. Either that or watch it in French 5.1 DD.

Dolby sucks.

DTS rules.

 

[mtrycrafts]

Dance Flick Is The First Paramount Movie To Have DTS-HD Master Audio
http://www.dvdactive.com/news/releases/dance-flick.html

Is this exclusively or will use both? Or what?

 

[GlocksRock]

Is this exclusively or will use both? Or what?

Not sure, only time will tell. But it is cheaper for studios to use dts, so hopefully it will the dts exclusively from here on out, but I don't know for sure.

 

[Adam]

My brother does not have a TrueHD receiver. So the other day when he was watching Transformers BD, he could only get 2.0 Stereo English soundtrack since it does NOT contain an English 5.1 DD soundtrack.

Perhaps his hardware can't do it, but you might want to doublecheck the settings. I have my Panasonic BD60 blu-ray player connected to my Pioneer (that won't do TrueHD) with an optical connection, and my Pioneer will play the TrueHD track as Dolby Digital (full surround, not 2.0). Sounds fantastic.

 

[AcuDefTechGuy]

Perhaps his hardware can't do it, but you might want to doublecheck the settings. I have my Panasonic BD60 blu-ray player connected to my Pioneer (that won't do TrueHD) with an optical connection, and my Pioneer will play the TrueHD track as Dolby Digital (full surround, not 2.0). Sounds fantastic.

Are you sure the movie you watched does not have BOTH a TrueHD & DD 5.1 track?

Some movies have both TrueHD & DD 5.1 and they default to DD 5.1.

Some movies only have a TrueHD track.

So if the movie you watched only has a TrueHD track and not both, does your Pioneer receiver say "Dolby Digital) - as in bitstream?

 

[Adam]

Are you sure the movie you watched does not have BOTH a TrueHD & DD 5.1 track?

No, but it was the Transformers blu-ray. Perhaps there are multiple editions? It only had one track for multi-channel audio in English (track one), and I think it said TrueHD on the description when I pulled up the audio track display for the blu-ray player. I can check later tonight if you're interested in that.

My Pioneer was receiving the bitstream from the Panasonic.

 

[AcuDefTechGuy]

No, but it was the Transformers blu-ray. Perhaps there are multiple editions? It only had one track for multi-channel audio in English (track one), and I think it said TrueHD on the description when I pulled up the audio track display for the blu-ray player. I can check later tonight if you're interested in that.

My Pioneer was receiving the bitstream from the Panasonic.

Hmm. That is interesting. Yeah, the Transformers BD only has one English track, and it is the TrueHD.

Oh, wait. I just noticed that you used the OPTICAL output. My brother was using the HDMI output. So maybe that's it! Perhaps Optical/Coaxial digital out will allow for the DD-core 5.1 on the TrueHD track?

 

[allargon]

Hmm. That is interesting. Yeah, the Transformers BD only has one English track, and it is the TrueHD.

Oh, wait. I just noticed that you used the OPTICAL output. My brother was using the HDMI output. So maybe that's it! Perhaps Optical/Coaxial digital out will allow for the DD-core 5.1 on the TrueHD track?

Optical will NOT transmit DD+, DTS-HD HR, Dolby TrueHD, DTS-HD MA or more than two channel PCM.

Many standalone Blu-Ray players will transcode DD+ and Dolby TrueHD to 5.1 DTS for legacy receivers.

This is clearly a case of misconfigured hardware. Was there a hidden DD track on the Transformers Blu-Ray like most Sony discs? Warner is the only one that doesn't hide the DD track track on their TrueHD Blu-rays. (In fact they default to it.)