Dolby Digital Plus (thatīs the name) will kick DTS's arss when the software decoders hit the market, from my POV. And if Aften can keep up with it, DTS will become truely obsolete, in part for what Iīve stated before, in part cause there are no free DTS encoders (a genius move for a company trying to get everybody to use their format, hahaha).
For Dolby Plus, up to 14 discrete channels (13.1), although the HD DVDs standard only allows 7.1, re-written encoding algorithms (they say improved, I donīt want to be a Dolby advertiser, letīs just say re-written as that is true), bitrate up to 3Mb. But I think youīll hardly need to go far from 640 kbps approx. for 7.1 channel encoding.
DTS is still pushing its DTS-ES Discrete 6.1. Good luck with that.
I hope the new Dolby format is not too far away in time for testing. I hope they can live up to the expectation they created with this improved format, otherwise I will hate their guts.
Cheers, people.
P.D. good to know youīll still be around, Mug
