Giz Explains: Dolby, DTS and Home Theater Audio Codec ConfusionS
You actually know what some of the crazy doodles on the side of
an HDTV means when it comes to video-720p, 1080i, 1080p.
Congrats, you're ahead of most people, like my mother. But do
you understand the alphabet soup of audio, the confounding
constellation of logos on your Blu-ray player's box? While there
are basically two rival home-theater audio encoders-Dolby and
DTS-they each have several different quality levels and options
for different scenarios. Yeah, it's a lot to keep up with, and
it annoys us too. So we asked Dolby and DTS to put down their
guns for a sec and help us sort it out.  We're assuming you know
some of the basics-like that 5.1 audio is five channels of audio
positioned at center, front right, front left, back right and
back left, and then one subwoofer channel. And that a higher bit
rate means more audio data is coming through, which, generally,
means it's higher quality and gonna sound better, since you're
losing less of t