

The first is DTS 6, the most commonly used 5.1 standard, which can encode six-channel sound with less compression than the Dolby Digital standard.

Types of DTSDTS falls into four different categories. To be able to play DTS-encoded media, you need a certified DTS decoder. Therefore, DTS's sound quality is theoretically higher, at the cost of a higher bit rate. Compared with the Dolby Digital standard, DTS uses four times less compression and digitizes sound at 20 bits instead of 16.

