OK,
I've been listening (on headphones) to the audio quality of a few DVD films (I could mention titles, but it's irrelevant, AFAIK). I constantly hear compression artifacts similar, or identical to the hash associated with mp3 encoded audio.
Now I know DVD picture and audio are compressed, and require it to get past the bottlenecks of multi-channel with picture, but I was under the impression that fidelity isn't compromised. I assume this is a lie, and the audio seems to be nothing more than mp3 quality. This low quality makes for a distracting listen to these otherwise fantastic movies; WTF? Production costs of making films, hi-res. 96k audio - for what? To sound like your kid's iPod playlist?
Maybe I've just had a couple of bad DVD's, but 3 out of 3 sounded pretty poor through headphones. BTW - compression artifacts are WAY less noticeable thru speakers - you have to listen quite intently to notice it...
Any one else hear this, or have insights? Or is it just me?
