Originally Posted by VirusKiller
2) I think Bob was referring to lossless codecs disappearing. If I read it right, the cost of putting a lossless PCM m/channel soundtrack on the BRD is not great. It's cheaper for the studios too; Dolby and DTS lose out (and possibly Meridian if it still has a royalty stream from MLP/TrueHD). Ditching even lossless PCM would be truly awful.

Yes, another re-read and I suspect you are right. The downside of *only* including PCM, rather than a lossless compression, though is that it eats up space which could be given to video... for that reason I'd hope lossless codecs continue to be used...

Mark

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