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Originally Posted by nurbs
I think saying that people are generally forced to use lossy tracks is quite a stretch.
A lossless track is much bigger, less compatible and people are often unable to distinguish between that and a high bitrate encode (e.g. AC3 640 kbps).
I have a WD TV and while it would be nice if it supported more formats like DTS-HD I'd never use that functionality.
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See, what use a format that cannot be used in practice
The lossless HD audio both on mediaplayers and PC is extremely cumbersome, even if converted into FLAC. The only feasable way of using lossless HD audio is to burn it on a BD video (along with the video track to whom it belongs) and play it on standalones (hopefully not "cinavied").
So, people are forced to use 5.1 lossy because of:
1. the available space
2. multiple issues with HD lossless on PC
3. unsupported format on most mediaplayers
Both this post and the other one should be understood as "no, people do not reencode to lossy", but as "people keep the lossy", not only because the access to 6 true channels is beyond the monetary reach of a consumer, but also because 6 chn. encoding software play in the same league.