Quote Originally Posted by kexodusc
So there was a lag between the first DVD's appearing in stores and DTS appearing as well.
i'm one of the few that got burned pretty bad by Laserdisc - I only had a few compared to some, maybe 30 or so..but I didn't have the decoder to process any DTS, if they even had it. Don't remember.
I always felt Laserdisc had some titles that looked and sounded better than some DVD's I ended up replacing - Apollo 13 comes to mind...
Kex,

The majority (and I do mean majority) of early DVD's were recycled Laserdisc transfers, but where LD was superior was in the lack of compression that some DVD's had. The DTS on those LD's were stunning! RONIN and BLADE come to mind as two Laserdiscs that have yet to be beat on DVD and we will see what happens with the HD formats. The DTS DVD's were not too far behind the initial DVD's, but the studios were too mixed on releasing DTS as a standard feature. Warner never really got on board with DTS, MGM was not doing DTS except in some rare cases (HANNIBAL), and Paramount NEVER did a DTS DVD, at least not until late in the game with the Jack Ryan films. Fox and Universal did DTS more frequently, Columbia started doing some titles, mostly Superbit, and Disney was here and there as well. With that type of inconsistency it's no wonder few people still to this day know about the advantages of DTS. I am glad to see better support on the HD formats, but I think it should be standard!