Post #77360

Author: Moth3r
Parent topic: PCM to 5.1
Link to post in topic: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/77360/action/topic#77360
Date created: 12-Nov-2004, 10:27 AM

A 2.0 Surround AC-3 track would be about 57% smaller than a 5.1 AC-3.
The uncompressed 2.0 PCM, as MeBe said, is much larger.

But you have to put it into perspective that the 5.1 mix takes up only about, say 10%, of the total disc space. So in reality there's not much gain.