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Author Topic: DTS on pc Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 05-14-2001 09:55 AM                     Alas the DTS mommie board bios contains special stuff that you need when you boot up the computer for it all to work correctly. Its actually easier do either buy a new one or locate a used one, of which there are plenty out there. Mark @ GTS  |  IP: Logged Antonio Marcheselli Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1260 From: Florence, Italy Registered: Mar 2000 posted 05-14-2001 04:04 PM                        Mark, Why have you plenty of used unit there? Bye Antonio  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 05-14-2001 05:50 PM                     Antonio, Because there are many theaters close here and in Canada. That makes them quite easy to find on the used market around here. Same goes for Sony SDDS cause so many theaters pull them out because they no work too well. I have even seen SDDS processors and readers on E-Bay for sale! Mark @ GTS  |  IP: Logged Heyward Garner Expert Film Handler Posts: 101 From: Winston-Salem, NC, USA Registered: Jan 2001 posted 05-15-2001 12:21 AM                     ahHA! I am glad that this topic has arisen... As with any kind of obstruction, human intervention always seems to prevail. I am sure that someday, somehow, someone will figure out how to do it. After all, the dts disks are run off of a 486 =) Think about it... Playstation games are nothing but data files. Nintendo games are nothing but data files. Hell, Audio CD tracks are nothing but data files when put into a computer. The files contained on DTS disks are nothing but data files. Now the bitch is not in the timecode, it's not in the processors (platinum live, anyone?) it is in the software used to decode it. Divx has been the most recent example. I can fit entire movies in divx rip onto one regular cd. It's pretty cool. They aren't of the highest quality, but they aren't bad, and they play on older PCs with no special anything, really. It can happen...  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 05-15-2001 02:22 AM                        DTS discs aren't anywhere near as popular as DVD, so there aren't as many (if any) actual hackers working on such software. Can it be done on a common computer? Sure. Will it be done? Who knows, but I wouldn't hold my breath. The software would have to do a 2 channel mixdown from the existing 6 channels. "But my PC has a coax digital audio out for 6 channels!" you say? Great. Then the software will have to decode the DTS and re-encode each channel into Dolby Digital AC-3. By the time it reaches your sound system it will sound like crap.  |  IP: Logged

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