Its really good to know that Tamil Blu-ray authoring are at the hands of an expert. One thing which I feel disappointed with Tamil Blu-ray being the audio bit depth in invariably 16 bit which IMHO is more of CD quality. Is this because the original audio master is recorded at 16 bit instead of 24bit or is it because of some other restriction. 24bit audio bit depth would definitely do better justice for Blu-rays, ofcourse just padding 16 to 24 would be pointless.

Sunny, are top Indian directors and DOPs aware of Red Epic camera? Are they planning to use it?

^ I am confused, I thought old amps and AVRs decode PCMs and they have issues with the newer multi channel DTS HDMA track.

I wonder how many people with older amps know of the "analog out" option to get lossless sound. If your player has built in audio decoders and your amp supports 5.1/7.1 analog audio out, you can get lossless sound.

You are corect. But the issue with DTS HD MA is not so severe. I think Sunny is referring to the fact that Older Amps that cannot decode HD MA can atleast down-convert DTS HD MA to core DTS Track which can still give an impressive 5.1 result. However with PCM the older Amps are stuck to just decoding any 5.1 spurce to just 2 channel sound only.

If one has the older AVR that does only PCM, why not let the player do the decoding and output PCM. I think most players should be able to output PCM over TOS link if the player doesnt have multichannel analog output which can be used with the receiver. I feel having two lossless audio tracks is just an over kill and the additional space could either be used for extras or additional video bandwidth. This is once again just my opinion.