Sorry, but I can certainly here a difference and I will take lossless over lossy any day, thank you very much. By the way, stereo is so 1980s!
Your argument is self defeating. Your accessing a server of HD movies ripped off from the very format in which your arguing against. Whew, good thing there is such a huge catalogue of BD titles to rip off, no?
Well if you you expect digital downloads to soar, then these two companies will have to start taking things seriously. But at 297 HD movies encoded in 720p and in lossly format, the iTunes store is a joke.
Obviously he has not ventured into a Best Buy, Walmart, or a Target as of late and have touched back down to reality.
Lossless audio such as flac is very nice when your an audiophile and it is a bit clearer and cleaner than say mp3 but in an mkv h264 1080p movie with ac3 and full dts I cannot tell the difference, unless you have the right (expensive) equipment, there really isnt much of a big difference.
I think your just making arguments for the sake of arguing. I know people listen to flac (audiophiles) and I can understand that but for movies, I cannot tell much of a big difference.
Anyway, like I said, I dont use iTunes. I can never find anything I'm looking for on iTunes. Newsgroups is where its at. I dont have to go to amazon and pay $10 or $30-$40 for new bluray movies a pop either and have to wait 3-5 days to receive the bluray to watch it. I get the same quality sound and pq on my big screen 2 hours later the same day. IMO NOTHING beats that. I dont know if your familiar with the newsgroup scene or not but you sure are missing out! 9447 bluray movies at just one click of a button download and watch it 2-3 hours later the same day.
Like I said unless you have a $20,000+ receiver, speaker, surround system, your not going to notice much of a difference.
All MKV bluray movies I d/l pretty much has full dts either with aac or ac3 and (at least on my system) I've compared against a real bluray from the ps3 and it doesnt make much of a difference, if any at all.
And imho, I've always thought that the bluray disc is just too big to fill and its real selling point was hyping up the high quality sounds so that it can become the new standard. Well I suppose the hype is working. Because first hand comparisons for myself these past few years, I cannot tell the difference. Maybe because my sound system is only worth $10,000??
Also its not only the quality of the sound thats SUPPOSED to be better. Bluray is supposed to have more sound samples (usually for full surround systems, and yes it is noticable in high quality systems to notice the difference). As I said earlier in one of my posts, I just use the front speakers (done away with the surround as I thought it was unnecessary) but some folks out there loves the full surround. If you do have a nice full surround system then you can hear more sounds around you with a bluray disc as to a bluray mkv file. But even as a movie lover, surround is overrated imo.
Trust me, if I blindly showed a movie off of my system and had you guess if it was from the 12GB bluray mkv movie I d/led or straight from the bluray disc on a ps3, you could NOT tell the difference. And it has that movie theatre OOMPH to it.
