DTS (Digital Theater Systems, Inc.) Digital Surround delivers 5.1 digital sound that rivals master soundtracks. DTS soundtracks are included in many DVD videos, DVD Audio discs and PlayStation 2 games. DTS decoders are in virtually every major brand of 5.1-channel surround processors, and there are more than 100 million DTS-licensed consumer electronics products available worldwide. A pioneer in multi-channel audio, DTS technology is in home theatre, car audio, PC and game console products, as well as 5.1 Music Discs, DVD-Video, DVD-Audio and DVD-ROM software. Additionally, DTS is featured on more than 20,000 motion picture screens worldwide. DTS was founded in 1993.
Digital Theater System, the multi-channel audio coding used in cinemas and also on some DVD-Video discs.
Digital Time Service, DEC service similar to NTP
Digital Theater Systems. A digital compression format, in home theater use, DTS uses up to 5.1 channels of sound consisting of left, center, right, left surround, right surround and a dedicated sub woofer channel.
Digital Theater Systems. It is a multi-channel surround sound format, similar to Dolby Digital. For DVDs that use DTS audio, the DVD - Video specification still requires that PCM or Dolby Digital audio still be present. In this situation, only two channels of Dolby Digital audio may be present (due to bandwidth limitations).
Digital Theatre Sound System. A Dolby proprietary discrete 5.1 channel surround system similar to, but not the same as Dolby Digital AC-3, the DTV standard. DTS is used in cinema presentations and in DVD’s.
This programme feature a discrete 5.1 channel soundtrack and must be played through DTS-capable equipment. When played through DTS equipment, sound will be heard from all five system speakers and a subwoofer.
discrete, digital surround-sound format used in movie theaters and home-theater systems. An alternative to Dolby Digital that uses a higher bit rate. Also called "DTS Digital Surround."
Digital Time Stamping. Sistema per la marcatura temporale di certificati e documenti.
See Digital Time Stamping.
Digital Theater Systems. A surround sound technology directly competing with the Dolby surround standards. Products include DTS-ES and DTS:NEO6. For more information, see our article on surround sound.
Delirium tremens; a state of confusion accompanied by trembling and vivid hallucinations. Symptoms may include restlessness, agitation, trembling, sleeplessness, rapid heartbeat, and convulsions. DTs often occur in chronic alcoholics after withdrawal or abstinence from alcohol but also may occur during an episode of heavy alcohol consumption, if consumption level declines. DTs can be fatal.
Defect Tracking Server, Defect Tracker's Server Defect tracking server or defect tracker's server. If the defect tracking has a client-server architecture (and they all seem to) this refers to the machine on which the server runs. Some defect trackers are just ODBC clients talking to a generic database, in which case the DTS is the DTDB server.
Digital Theater Systems. A digital 5.1 surround sound recording format which is in direct competition with Dolby Digital. It features similar, but incompatible, technologies.
Digital Theater Systems. Multi-channel digital surround system that encodes and decodes audio signals enhancing the fidelity of the signal to produce high quality sound. It is used in some movie theatres and is also available in some home theatre digital processors. (See also 5.1 Surround Sound)
Acronym for Digital Theater Systems. This is a competing audio format to Dolby Digital. Some DVDs have DTS tracks, but the compression rate is much larger, so a DTS disc will hold less information.
Digital Theater Systems sound. Discrete 5.1 channel surround system similar but not the same as Dolby Digital. Dolby Digital is the DTV standard, but DTS competes with it on DVD and in the movie theaters.
Digital Theater Systems is an alternative digital audio coding system to Dolby Digital and offers high quality audio coding for digital movies, music, TV broadcasts, games, etc. The data rate is much higher than Dolby Digital so in theory it should provide a superior sound.
Discrete-channel home cinema digital sound system - rival to Dolby Digital
Digital Theater Systems. An 8-channel sound format used in commercial movie theaters.
Acronym which stands for Digital Theater Systems, a company which produces multichannel audio systems for cinema and home video, but which is generally used to refer to an lossy 6-channel audio system commonly used with laserdisc and DVD.
Digital Theater Sound, a surround-sound format developed for theatrical use (Jurassic Park, for instance) that has made its way into home-theater configurations as an alternative to Dolby Digital. DTS also remixes popular musical albums for its 20-bit-encoded 5.1-channel surround-sound CDs, which require DTS decoding on playback.
Digital Theatre System, a higher quality sound format than Dolby Digital.
Please refer to Audio Format.
An alternative to Dolby Digital, DTS (Digital Theatre System) is widely claimed to offer superior sound. DTS supports up to 7 discrete channels and up to two additional channels for low-frequency bass. Most commonly, DTS on DVD supports 5.1 channels (left, centre, right, surround left, surround right and sub) but the DVD format can handle any number of channels with in the DTS specification. DTS is a compressed sound format but generally undergoes less compression than Dolby Digital and is stored at a constant bit rate.
An audio signal encoding/decoding system, developed by Digital Theater Systems, that uses perceptual coding to reduce the data rate required to transmit, and the amount of digital space required to store, digital audio signals. Different consumer and professional versions use different amounts of compression, and therefore have different levels of audio quality. It can store mono, stereo and multichannel formats. See Perceptual Coding
A multi-channel surround format similar to Dolby Digital, but with less data compression. Offered on some DVDs. Requires special DTS decoding from the processor.
DECODING Digital Theater Systems ( DTS) Coherent Acoustics is a six-channel (5.1) audio system designed to deliver a higher-resolution multi-channel audio experience. DTS utilizes a perceptually transparent audio compression algorithm and a higher data rate (up to 1.5 mbps) to produce warm, natural, and rich sound from Compact Discs and film-based entertainment alike.
A rival sound format to Dolby Digital that does the same job. Opinion is divided on which is the superior format
Digital Theater Systems is a competing multi-channel audio format that also encodes 1 to 6 channels of sound for playback on equipment that has a DTS decoder. Common in movie theaters, on laserdisc, and on compact disc. A DTS-compatible DVD player will be required for playback of the DTS signal, and only recent DVD player models have this capability. Theoretically, as DTS uses less compression than Dolby Digital and has lower bass extension, it is superior to Dolby Digital.
Digital Theatre System. Alternative system of encoding six channel digital surround sound, used in some cinemas and on some DVD discs
Digital Theater Systems. A digital sound recording format, originally developed for theatrical film soundtracks, starting with Jurassic Park. Records 5.1 discrete channels of audio onto a handful of laser discs, CDs, and DVDs. Requires a player with DTS output connected to a DTS processor.
Digital Theater Systems, a digital sound treatment format of alternative encode/decode for surround sound home theaters and movie theaters. A competitor of Dolby® Digital. On DVD's some of the video information bandwidth is used for enhancing the audio.
Digital Theater Sound uses a lower digital-compression rate than Dolby Digital.
Digital Theatre Sound. Competitor to Dolby Digital with a reduced compression ratio that can, in theory, produce higher quality audio.
Digital Theater Sound. DTS is another popular digital 5.1 surround scheme developed by MCA/Universal and Steven Spielberg. Similar to Dolby Digital, the encoded DTS scheme is passed to the receiver via the digital coaxial or optical cables. It is designed to filter the audio signal into frequency bands which match the perceptual bands of human hearing.
DTS are trademarks of Digital Theater Systems Inc. Transmission standard for 5.1 channels from Digital Theater Systems Inc. This is the second most wide-spread after Dolby Digital.
A perceptual audio-coding system developed for theaters. DTS is a competitor of Dolby Digital and an optional audio track format for DVD-Video and DVD-Audio.
A digital sound recording format that was originally developed for theatrical film soundtracks, starting with Jurassic Park. Digitally compresses up to 5.1 discrete channels of audio (left front, center, right front, left surround, right surround and subwoofer) into a single bitstream. Five channels are full-range; the .1 channel is typically used for a subwoofer. Competing format is Dolby Digital (see above).
Digital Theatre System. An alternative to Dolby Digital, DTS encodes six-channel digital surround sound and is used in some cinemas and on some DVDs.
Digital Theater Sound. A perceptual audio-coding system developed for theaters. A competitor to Dolby Digital and an optional audio track format for DVD-Video and DVD-Audio.
Digital Theater Systems. A surround sound format that competes with Dolby Digital. Many listeners feel that it can sound better than Dolby Digital but there is a very limited DVD selection. More...
Digital Theater Systems Digital Surround is a DVD audio encoding format similar to Dolby Digital. It requires a decoder, either in the player or in an external receiver. Developed by Digital Theater Systems, Inc. it is also used in many movie theaters around the world. Six audio channels are used to create accurate sound field positioning and realistic sound.
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An audio encoding format similar to Dolby Digital. DTS offers theater system sound with at least six discrete audio channels but is compressed at a lower rate than Dolby Digital.
Digital Termination Service. DTS is a service that is provided by some carriers that permits the operators of private networks to use there digital microwave equipment in order to gain access to carrier networks. The FCC has allocated a specific microwave band for DTS.
Digital Theater Systems have released a competing audio format to Dolby Digital, claiming clearer, better sound. This requires a speacial DTS-capable DVD player to output. see DTS-Online
Digital Theatre Sound. An audio-encoding system developed for use in Cinemas; a competitor to Dolby Digital and an optional audio track format for DVD-Video
Digital Theater System. A multi-channel encoding/decoding system. Used in some movie theaters. Also now included in some home-theater processors. A competitor to Dolby Digital.
Stands for Digital Theater Sound and comes from the company of the same name. DTS accomplishes much the same thing as Dolby Digital, but it does so slightly differently. The two systems are incompatible when it comes to decoding, but after the signal is decoded, it is otherwise the same to the receiver, allowing many new receivers to incorporate both. Thus far, DTS has not made much impact on the home market, and minimal software is available that uses the system. The system was originally engineered for movie theaters.
DTS stand for Digital Theater Systems Digital Sound and is a product of DTS, Inc., DTS is a multichannel audio compression format similar to Dolby Digital/AC3 used in DVD-video discs, DVD-audio, 5.1 channel audio CDs, and some movie theaters. DTS differs from Dolby Digital in that it generally uses higher data rates and many have the opinion that DTS is better quality. DTS can only be on a DVD-video disc if accompanied by a Dolby Digital or LPCM track (for North America ) or mpeg audio and LPCM (European Community) to ensure compatibility, because DVD players are only required to decode those standards in those regions.
Discrete, digital 5.1 surround sound format used for movies and music; competitor of Dolby Digital featuring similar but incompatible compression and coding technologies to place six channels of sound on a DVD or on both digital audio tracks of a laserdisc (see 5.1)
An alternative to Dolby Digital found on DVD's, DTS provides higher fidelity sound but takes up more space on the DVD. Most home theater receivers can decode both Dolby Digital and DTS encoded sound.
Stands for Digital Theater Surround. Is one of the two mainstream 5.1 multichannel audio systems in present use. Compared with Dolby Digital, it has a relatively low data compression rate, which makes some people believe that it sounds better. The majority of DTS releases are still Region 1 (NTSC), although there are an increasing number on Region 2 (PAL), including Gladiator, Ali and Hannibal.
Like Dolby Digital (see above) DTS provides up to 5.1 channels of digital audio. Most home theater receivers include decoding for DTS.
Digital Theatre Systems sound format (competitor of Dolby Digital) enables the compression of 6 channels of discrete sound into a single bitstream. DTS mainly differs from Dolby Digital in that it utilizes a bigger bandwidth for reproducing sound. Some consider DTS to be the pinnacle of movie audio, providing greater depth than Dolby Digital. In order to access DTS sound you need an appropriate decoding device (either a DTS decoder or a DTS-compatible amplifier).
DTS, while similar to Dolby Digital in nature, utilizes a different encoding/decoding process to achieve surround sound reproduction. Although at present the inventory of source material is lagging behind Dolby Digital titles, DTS-encoded programming has proved to be a popular format. A processor and DVD player capable of DTS playback will be required to enjoy this format.
An audio encoding technology developed for theaters. DTS was developed to compete with Dolby Digital and is an additional audio format for DVD
Digital Theatre Sound. The disc contains a discrete five channel (5.1) soundtrack and must be played through DTS capable equipment. See DTS
A data compression method developed by Digital Theater Systems using waveform coding techniques that takes 6 channels of audio (5.1) and folds them into a single digital bitstream. This differs from Dolby Digital in that the data rate is a somewhat higher 1.4Mbs, which represents a compression ratio of about 4 to 1. DTS is also what's known as a "Lossy" compression (see Lossy Compression).
An audio format similar to Dolby Digital 5.1, Digital Theater Systems Digital Surround (DTS) was developed to use a lower compression level for the greatest possible fidelity to the separate audio channels of a DVD. A decoder is required either externally or in the player. Some DVDs include both DTS and Dolby Digital 5.1 tracks, allowing the consumers to choose for themselves. Discs only produced in DTS will play on any regular DVD players but will not play back the DTS signal unless a decoder is present.
Digital Theater Systems Digital Sound. A six-channel audio compression format similar to Dolby Digital; however, it has a higher data rate than Dolby (four times higher, 1.44 Mbps), presumably giving it better sound quality. A decoder for this type of audio is not mandatory for all DVD players, so DTS has to “piggyback” on Dolby Digital or LPCM tracks if a DVD player does not have DTS playback capability.
Digital Theater Systems. A discrete, 5.1-channel format designed originally for motion-picture use. It is the main competitor of Dolby Digital. See also Dolby Digital.
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DTs principally refers to Delirium Tremens, the symptoms associated with alcohol withdrawal.