Gone are the premium prices and the elitist Practically every DVD player on the shelves carries the DTS logo status of these players, as an entire player generation has seen manufacturers adopt DTS audio as a common feature in their line-ups. Only the most basic and low-end players still do not support DTS audio, but this may not matter as the clientele these players cater to may not have an interest in the superiority of the audio presentation offered by the DTS audio stream. There are now even DVD-ROM drives in the market that are fully DTS compatible. DTS was able to make these changes possible. The same rapid development has occurred on the receiver end.
Receivers take the digital bitstream from the DVD player and decode it into something audible.
If you are in the market to buy a new receiver for your home theater today you will be hard pressed to find one that is not DTS-capable. It would be foolish today to buy a new receiver that is not With its 6.1 channel DTS ES format, the company now has an edge over Dolby Digital DTS-capable, simply because they are so readily available and affordable. With the introduction of its discrete 6.1 surround format DTS ES, the company now even has an edge over Dolby Digital that is not based in the realm of measurable acoustic quantities only, but offers clear architectural superiority. But all the hardware is worthless without the software to drive it, and it is in this field that the most changes have happened. Exactly one year ago there were a mere 50 DVDs in the market containing DTS audio tracks.