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Topic: 1993-94 DTS audio??
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Manny Knowles
"What are these things and WHY are they BLUE???"
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From: Bloomington, IN, USA
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posted 11-28-2012 04:27 PM
The DTS recordings are digital. Depending on your player and processor, the DTS output might be analog or digital.
For instance, my original DTS-6 players output analog to the Smart IIB and Dolby CP-45 processors, but a digital connection was possible to the Smart MOD IIC. Connection to the "Film" input of a DMA8plus processor would also be analog.
Even though DTS-Stereo (2-track) still needed to be Lt/Rt decoded, one would have noticed improvements in: signal-to-noise, dynamic range, frequency response, and perfect "azimuth" -- as compared to analog-optical. Furthermore, splices or other print damage would have had no degrading effect on the soundtrack.
My experience with copied DTS discs is that they're hit-or-miss -- sometimes they play just fine, and sometimes they don't. For example, earlier this year I received an Italian film with DTS discs containing the English dubbed version of the soundtrack -- those discs were useless. They wouldn't even load. [This wasn't the end of the world for us, because we really wanted the Italian dialogue (the SR-D track) for the actual screening anyway, but I was hoping to test out my DTS player.]
Back in the day, when I was running lots of first-run stuff, it wasn't too difficult to phone the distributor -- or even the depot -- and request a set of "chaser" discs. Not sure what happens when a repertory title doesn't include the discs.
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Carsten Kurz
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From: Cologne, NRW, Germany
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posted 11-28-2012 07:18 PM
Shawn - don't know how to make my point clear - to my knowledge, there is no WINAMP Plugin or any other media player application to play original cinema dts files - no matter wether it is the later dts 6 channel or dts-s format. You can browse and copy the files, that's it.
DTS consumer format or Winamp AUD files are a completely different species, so I consider it completely normal that Winamp can not read these AUD files from dts cinema discs.
You need the proper dts hardware player and the necessary timecode/reader in order to play DTS discs. A windows laptop can not do it. Which 'the plugin' do you mean? The more common Winamp AUD format is a game music format.
DTS stereo (not DTS-S) was an analog optical format compatible with Dolby SR. It's only original intention was to have an optical fallback format for digital DTS, without the need for a proper Dolby licensed SR track. With the later common combo DD, DTS,SDDS, and SR prints, there was no need for a dedicated analog DTS fallback format anymore, and they gave up on it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DTS_(sound_system)
- Carsten
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