HDD Demos Dolby Atmos and Dolby TrueHD Advanced 96K Upsampling

[Attebery]

HDD Demos Dolby Atmos and Dolby TrueHD Advanced 96K Upsampling
http://www.highdefdigest.com/news/sh...psampling/9450

[Attebery]

The first of Josh's posts is up:

http://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/dolby-96k-upsampling/

[Josh Z]

My post that explains Atmos in more detail is up now as well:

http://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/dolby-atmos

[Silver_Cat]

Yes pal, anybody understand that 96k is better than our poorly 48k. Why 96k was not the standard for the BR since the beggining?

[pedram]

Thanks for the great article. I'm REALLY looking forward to atmos.

[Josh Z]

Yes pal, anybody understand that 96k is better than our poorly 48k. Why 96k was not the standard for the BR since the beggining?

This is explained in my article:

http://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/dolby-96k-upsampling/

If you read the article, you will learn the answer to this.

48k is the standard in film production, and this is not going to change anytime in the forseeable future.

[Silver_Cat]

jOSH there are a few dvds that use the 96k, i.e. Queen concerts that sounds glorious. Why a millionaire movie can not use it too?

They CAN, but NOT WANT it.

[Josh Z]

jOSH there are a few dvds that use the 96k, i.e. Queen concerts that sounds glorious. Why a millionaire movie can not use it too?

They CAN, but NOT WANT it.

Again, this is explained in the article. Wouldn't it be nice if you bothered to read the things you're complaining about?

Aside from the occasional concert movie, almost all feature films and television shows are mixed at a rate of 48 kHz. This is unlikely to change in the foreseeable future due to a variety of logistical issues in the film production pipeline. For example, 96k files require twice as many mixing resources as 48k, which means that only half the number of channels on the console would be available. Not to mention that the average movie soundtrack is comprised of numerous audio elements recorded at a variety of quality levels. 48k is a common standard that works and doesn’t seem ready to change.

A concert documentary generally does not require as many channels of sound as a regular feature film. An action movie, for example, can have hundreds of channels of audio running simultaneously that need to be mixed down to 5.1 or 7.1. A concert may only need a few channels for the music and a few for crowd noises and ambience.

This is a huge problem that makes 96k impractical for feature films.

I find it massively ironic that the guy who constantly posts here about how he thinks that lossless audio is a worthless scam would be the one complaining that movies need to be mixed at 96k.

[Silver_Cat]

I find it massively ironic that the guy who constantly posts here about how he thinks that lossless audio is a worthless scam would be the one complaining that movies need to be mixed at 96k.

Hey my HT can run 96 without problems, not HD sound, its a crime try to desire more?

[Josh Z]

Hey my HT can run 96 without problems, not HD sound, its a crime try to desire more?

The difference between lossy and lossless sound is audible to human ears. The difference between 48k and 96k much less so.

[Silver_Cat]

The difference between lossy and lossless sound is audible to human ears...

Yes is must audible when you are Brad Pitt and had your own 100 square meters cinema room.

[Josh Z]

Yes is must audible when you are Brad Pitt and had your own 100 square meters cinema room.

And yet you think that you can hear the difference between 48k and 96k?

Whatever.

[Silver_Cat]

josh we can hear the diference between 44.1k vs 48k, a 96k movie just will sounds supergood.

[blairy]

Anybody know where I can buy the 96khz version of satchurated? I can only find the standard 48khz.

Thanks
blairy

[Josh Z]

josh we can hear the diference between 44.1k vs 48k, a 96k movie just will sounds supergood.

Really, you've done a blind listening test of identical material at both rates?

Yeah, I didn't think so.