Question

What audio codecs will Blu-ray support?

Answer Linear PCM (PLPCM) - offers up to 8 channels of uncompressed audio.

Dolby® Digital (DD) - format used for DVDs, offers 5.1 channel surround sound.

Dolby Digital Plus (DD+) - extension of DD, offers increased bitrates and 7.1 channel surround sound.

Dolby TrueHD - extension of MLP Lossless, offers lossless encoding of up to 8 channels of audio.

DTS Digital Surround - format used for DVDs, offers 5.1 surround sound.

DTS-HD - extension of DTS, offers increased bitrates and up to 8 channels of audio.

Please note that this simply means that Blu-ray players will have to support playback of these audio codecs, it will be up to the movie studios to decide which audio codec(s) they use for their releases.

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