Does it take 24 frames a second?

[Anonymous]

Judder judder judder, I have a 428xd which accepts 24fps and a pioneer bluray but guess what it still judders on camera pans no screen will pan smoothly when processing the picture correctly, It will only be smooth with frame interpolation the low frame rate causes judder

 

[Anonymous]

Im using an optical lead to a 5 year old pioneer all in on home cinema system until i can get a new amp and speakers have noticed that blu-rays with the dts hd sound so much louder and better for effects the blu-rays with dolby true hd why i dont know, anyone?

 

[Cofnchtr]

Hi,

With an optical lead you are getting the DD 'core' soundtrack and not the Dolby TruHD - same with DTS - you're getting plain vanilla DTS and not HD.

Some would say that DTS was a superior format to Dolby - maybe you're one of them that has this opinion. When you play a DTS soundtrack you are hearing the difference between the two.

Cheers,

Cofnchtr.

 

[professorhat]

I'm pretty sure on Blu-Ray, the core Dolby Digital track is 640 Kbps, whereas the core DTS track is 1.5 Mbps meaning the DTS track is more than twice the bitrate of the DD track and thus can hold a lot more detail - this would explain the differences you are hearing.

 

[Anonymous]

Does this mean that an optical lead is a lower quality way of transmitting sound info? i thought it was the best and didn't compromise the signal at all? sorry for my ignorance i thought Dolby digital was the best surround sound and also that there was no such thing as HD sound.

 

[professorhat]

Well, I don't think there is an official term "HD sound", but it has come to mean the new soundtracks available on Blu-Ray (and previously HD-DVD) discs which are either uncompressed PCM, or are encoded in one of the new lossless compression formats like Dolby TrueHD and DTS HD Master Audio. Have a look through the forums for these terms and you'll find a wealth of information on them.
And no, optical isn't the best way of transmitting audio - it's not that it compromises the signal necessarily (though the cable plays a part in this), it's just it doesn't have the ability to transmit all the data contained in these soundtracks - there is just too much information and the optical cable doesn't have the bandwidth to do it. HDMI 1.3 is the new connection which can do this.

 

[Anonymous]

Thanks for that prof, clears it up nicely, not a prob for me though as don''t have blu ray.