LaserDisc Audio Guide – Part 4: DTS

Culturedog Sam Hatch has returned with a small series of videos hashing out the convoluted history of the audio portion of LaserDisc history. Analog, digital, mono, stereo, surround, Pro-Logic, AC-3, Dolby Digital, DTS… all those confusing acronyms and output jacks… all will be broken down and explained.

In this fourth video, Sam discusses the long-awaited LaserDisc implementation of Digital Theater Systems’ 5.1-channel “Coherent Acoustics” surround sound format. Primed to explode on the market as a Dolby killer following a stellar period of theatrical growth, DTS dropped into home theaters in 1997 with no less than Jurassic Park in its corner.

Was it worth the wait? And how does one go about listening to these discs in the present day? Hold onto your butts as we flip the switch and shine a light on DTS 5.1!

Strap in and crank it up!

Chapters
0:00 Opening Titles
0:14 Intro / Recap
1:10 Digital Theater Systems
2:26 Discrete 5.1 Surround
3:17 Audio Compression
4:35 DTS Software Rollout
6:06 5.1 LaserDisc Implementation
8:10 Backwards Compatability
9:28 Market Approaches
11:13 Playback Issues / DTS Drawbacks
15:22 Speaker Level Quirks
16:49 LaserDisc Surround Mixes
18:15 Injecting New Life in LD Format
19:40 Collectability Factors
21:46 Player Needs
22:20 Connecting/Decoding
23:50 Wrap-Up

Check out the roster of all known DTS LaserDiscs on the LaserDisc Database:
https://www.lddb.com/list.php?format=ld&list=dts

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