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Originally Posted by A.Fenderson
It seems like some people who likely find DTS 1.5Mbps a sweet-spot for quality vs. bitrate for surround-encoding are reencoding some of their lossless BD audio tracks to core DTS for their backups using BD-RB, or going to MKV, etc. I am considering this route myself (generally to BD25 via BD-RB), but have some questions for those in the know.
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People doing this generally
do this because they want to play the rips on mediatanks or mediastreamer or or or (fill in the names yourself). Except for several notable exceptions, and which are by far extremely expensive*, none of them can use lossless HD audio, not even as bitstream, otherwise they would be forced to pay licence fees which would raise the end price (bye bye 60€ mediaplayer-that-plays-everything).
Even those playing it on a PC still have to fight several hurdles in order to get lossless HD audio digitally out (the cheapest audio card with HDMI or video card with HDMI-audio is ~300€, 2-3x the price of an entry level BD player).
5.1 is the easiest way of having high quality audio, without too much trouble.
So they
are generally
forced to do this, it's not their choice as you thought it were.
* Popcorn Hour, some models, at least 350€ bare
HD Dune, some models, at least 500€
Sony PS3, at least 300€, cinavied
vs
WD TV ~ 80€
China-noname ~ 60-100€ (according to the rebadger)
even some entry level USB-enabled BD players (lots of restrictions though) ~ 100-150€