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Old 04-17-2008, 09:25 PM   #24 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by ganthc View Post
I wouldn't be surprised if that is what they did when with hd-dvd. I do know that bd fans will freak if they offer just a regular DD track for all their movies.
What I'm saying is that they could easily transcode their 1.5mbps DD+ encode to "lossless" TrueHD, then transcode it also to lossy 640kbps. The "lossless" track would sound better than the lossy one so people would have no idea it came from a HBR lossy source encode (b/c of little to no difference between the two), but they would still be able to market it as a lossless track

Would be a quick and easy way to please those who look for the lossless bullet point while also having backwards compatibility without doing a whole new encode. I bet they would do this before they would offer DD+ 1.5 & DD640.
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