DTS definitely isn’t lossless on DVDs, just very high bitrates (actually, quite embarrassingly, people have found that FLAC, which is actually lossless, often outperforms it for efficiency). However, it uses bandpasses to do the whole noise reduction thing, which contributes to lossy compression that is often much more smooth. I dunno what the status of the Blu-Ray format is (DTS HD Master or whatever it’s called) but I understand that actually to be lossless, properly lossless. Though of course then you need a lot of space. Google says people are doing rips using the AC3 successor, Dolby True HD, which, like AC3, tends to be the more widespread.
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