Demand Dts!!!

[Woochifer]

to my knowledge TWISTER is not full bit rate. might help if you learn a bit about the formats before lecturing me on them. turns out it might be your equipment that is the problem as well as your opinion. i am quite aware of 96/24 and neo:6 etc etc when it comes to DTS. I've reviewed hundreds of titles at www.fulvuedrive-in.com if you want to check it out.

I'll simply confirm what's already been stated, the DTS track on Twister is the full bitrate 1.5k version. The media tags indicate this, so you might want to make sure your information's correct before you start taking shots at someone else's knowledge, opinions, and equipment.

well, you said so yourself that both your receiver and perhaps dvd player are not allowing for a proper decoding of 96/24. if TWISTER is the best disc that you have for sound than you must not have many others. that dvd is old and there are far better examples that have been issued since then. not that it has a bad mix by any means, just that there are better reference quality pieces available now.

What does the number of discs that someone owns have to do with the validity of their opinion on a soundtrack or factual knowledge of the bitrate that a disc uses? Ever heard of video stores or Netflix?

The Twister DVD might be "old" in your estimation, but it also uses a higher resolution soundtrack than nearly all of the DVDs that have been issued since then. The bass extension might not go as low as some other DVDs, but the surround mix is very well done in terms of the envelopment, directional cues, imaging, and timbral characteristics; and the dynamic range on both the DD and DTS tracks is very high.

Plus, it's one of the few DVDs that contains a full bitrate Dolby Digital track with no dialog normalization offset, ensuring perfect level matching with the DTS track. So, if you want to listen for the actual (rather than presumed) differences between DD and DTS, this DVD is indeed one of the best reference discs you can have. Think you can reliably tell the differences between the formats? Try doing a blind test with this disc, and see for yourself.