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#1003419 - 04/30/06 07:32 AM DTS announce the DTS-HD tools!
Neil Wilkes Moderator
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http://www.dtsonline.com/company/press/press-article.php?ID=613177079&cID=9&yID=2006

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.....
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#1003420 - 04/30/06 06:22 PM Re: DTS announce the DTS-HD tools!
blas
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Neil, As always you stay on the cutting edge! Good to hear/see that news, but still pricing currently for me here. Plus my clients are very 'stereo-minded' at present. They love what they hear in our control room, but just don't have the market for the 5.1 stuff. I honestly can't blame them, we still have slim days ahead before the feasting occurs!
But having said all that, do save me a place at the table.
Joe

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#1003421 - 05/01/06 05:03 AM Re: DTS announce the DTS-HD tools!
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I hear you loud & clear.
Until fairly recently I seemed to spend more time talking about surround than actually doing surround - but happily this has started changing.
Doing more now than ever before!

We have even made a substantial investment recently, buying the DTS-Pro series encoders - no point getting into DTS-HD as yet until (if?) I start getting any serious HD enquiries.
But at these prices, at least one of the audio forms is affordable - if not the authoring software (Have you seen the prices of Scenarist 4!)
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