Originally posted by wilkes: http://www.dtsonline.com/company/press/press-article.php?ID=61317...
DTS have just effectively stuck the boot right in as far as the new HD DVD and BRD codecs all go with the announcement of their new series of HD encoders.
At a list price of $1495 for the DTS-HD Master Audio Suite and $795 for the DTS-HD Surround Audio Suite, the prices compared to Dolby's True HD Media Encoder are far more realistic - and more importantly affordable.
(Dolby's True HD Media Encoder is a whopping $8,000)
Other benefits are perhaps a little more subtle as the Dolby version - if used in Lossless mode, also encodes a second core stream containing the original Dolby Digital codec as well whereas the DTS encoders do everything in one core stream with all the bells & whistles being contained in the extensions.
Also - perhaps even more importantly - DTS-HD is the ONLY one that is actually mandated - fully - for both BRD and HD DVD.
The Dolby lossless is mandated for stereo only.....
Well it says new members can't reply to threads more than 60 days old. So I quoted you.
That Dolby TrueHD encoder. I wonder if it's expensive because it's based on, and can also encode MLP lossless. What an expensive codec! For your purposes, do you use it? There's no way I would want it as I'm only a "prosumer" if anything. So I have not bothered (with the surcode one either).
Originally posted by harrydvd: Well it says new members can't reply to threads more than 60 days old. So I quoted you.
That Dolby TrueHD encoder. I wonder if it's expensive because it's based on, and can also encode MLP lossless. What an expensive codec! For your purposes, do you use it? There's no way I would want it as I'm only a "prosumer" if anything. So I have not bothered (with the surcode one either).
The Dolby True HD encoder is Mac OSX only.
The actual encoder can be got for "only" $2500 or so, without any of the proofing tools that are sort of vital.
MLP Lossless is exactly the same as Dolby True HD as well, but "True HD" enables up to 7.1 where the released MLP encoders from Meridian & SurCode only enabled 5.1
I use MLP Lossless (SurCode encoder) that I bought for $2000 way back in 2000. For DVD-Video encoding I use the Nuendo DDE, and the DTS-HD MAS system as this allows the "legacy" streams (DTS Core Audio) as well as DTS-ES (6.1 discrete or matrixed) and DTS 96/24, all of which are fine for DVD-Video.
The DTS-HD MAS encoder also includes DTS-CD, DTS-HD Lossless & High Resolution etc, and includes stream tools fopr splicing/editing a stream, and a streamplayer too. At $1500 it is all the encoder I really need except for my MLP Lossless one & the DD one.
Very occasionally I also use Dolby ProLogic II as well for matrixed Lt/Rt streams.
MLP (Meridian Lossless) allows for up to 14 channels, AFAIK. Could be mistaken though. Dolby True HD does allow for more, but none of this is enabled - or likely to be either.
