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I was actually pretty surprised by how well done the audio for the Superbowl was this weekend. I don't normally watch sports, but the surround thing was very well done and it sounded extremely high quality for what was by and large crowd noises, shouting, and commentary.

The networks have 20Mbps to play with. AC-3 generally sounds poorer than DTS because the versions on most DVDs are bit-for-bit identical to the versions shipped with movies, which are generally encoded at a little over 300kbps. But the networks don't have that limitation, they can go right up to ATSC's 448kbps maximum, which is generally considered on a par with regular DTS. That means they can devote less than 2.5% of their available bandwidth to audio and still have excellent audio resolution.

It'd be nice to see people demanding decent audio from the networks now that the networks really can deliver decent audio.]]>Feb 3rd 2009 9:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/03/klipsch-horns-in-on-dtv-transition-madness/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/03/klipsch-horns-in-on-dtv-transition-madness/Feb 3rd 2009 10:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/03/klipsch-horns-in-on-dtv-transition-madness/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/03/klipsch-horns-in-on-dtv-transition-madness/Feb 3rd 2009 12:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/03/klipsch-horns-in-on-dtv-transition-madness/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/03/klipsch-horns-in-on-dtv-transition-madness/Feb 3rd 2009 1:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/03/klipsch-horns-in-on-dtv-transition-madness/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/03/klipsch-horns-in-on-dtv-transition-madness/Feb 4th 2009 4:32PM