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Is the DTS soundtrack on Superbit titles full or half bit-rate?

Cheers,
Adam Walby.

Half (sadly). They`re all 754kbps...

Which makes a mockery of the whole `optimum quality` argument really. It would be a much better idea to have just one multi-channel soundtrack (DTS encoded at 1509kbps) accompanied only by a lower-rate 2-channel Dolby effort. I`d certainly be eager to buy them if they did it that way because full-rate DTS is demonstrably clearer/dynamic than the weedy tracks we`re normally given. Plus, the comparitively shorter films Columbia have released (like Resident Evil and Snatch) wouldn`t suffer visually in any perceptible way so they`d be A+ demo discs.

So all you get is better picture quality and a half bit-rate DTS soundtrack?
So, the Dolby 5.1 track is obviously the same as it would be on a standard DVD and the DTS soundtrack is the same half bit-rate soundtrack you would also get on a standard DVD... Pointless.

Cheers,
Adam.