Wow! This is quite a coup for DTS considering that up to this point, I had heard absolutely nothing about the sound formats that would go into the new HD video formats. I guess no matter what HD disc format wins out, DTS comes out ahead. And for consumers, this means that all of the next generation HD discs will have the DTS soundtracks on board. Good news all the way around, and with the higher bit capacity of the HD-DVD and Blu-Ray discs, there's no longer any reason for the DTS soundtrack not to go with the higher bitrate 1.5 Mbit/s bandwidth or even bump up to DTS 96/24.

But, actually the real story here I think is the option for the extensions. In addition to the DTS format that most of us are familiar with, DTS also has a lossless extension as well as configurations for additional channels, all of which are backwards compatible with existing DTS decoders. This opens up the door for true 7.1 and beyond, with full resolution and no data compression.

http://www.dtsonline.com/company/pre...cID=1&yID=2004