home theater BUT true HiFi

Sony has already specified that all Sony/MGM BD releases will in fact contain multichannel uncompressed linear PCM soundtracks. The best digital sound I have ever heard in a movie theater, by several orders of magnitude, is discrete multichannel uncompressed linear PCM (I heard this in an early digital projection presentation, played back from hard drive.) The sound had seemingly limitless dynamics, and yet was full-bodied and entirely effortless. There was striking clarity, and yet no hint of glare or brightness. Having this kind of sound at home will undoubtedly improve the sound of both movie soundtracks and music videos/concerts dramatically.406hdfeature.last.jpegIn addition to uncompressed PCM, Dolby and DTS will be doing what they best, licensing a variety of new surround sound flavors to take advantage of the bigger bit buckets of the new formats. These will begin with lossy formats that aren't as highly compressed as current DTS and Dolby Digital, and both companies will offer "lossless"codecs with bit for bit reconstruction of the original signal.

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