Why do studios leave off the extras on their DTS DVD releases?
Some of the previous releases were created without the video “extras” because the authoring engineers chose to conserve on space consumption (although in some cases there actually was enough room available to include the extras). Now that the studio engineers have had more experience in authoring the audio and video portions of these DVDS, many future titles will contain all of the extras of the previous DD release… and many future titles will offer both DTS and DD on the same disc… with the same extras. Is the DTS audio quality the same on the “dual” encoded movies as the ones which are DTS only? You recently introduced a new lower bitrate version of DTS. How does this differ from DD’s lower bitrate? Many of the “dual” encoded titles are a direct result of the “lower bitrate” technology that you are referring to. DTS encoding has always been a “scalable” technology that operates at a wide range of data rates. To fit DTS high-resolution soundtracks onto titles where 1.5 Mbps cannot
