reason: trend for comin 2011 dolby getting less and less is because of royalty issue~
dolby do not charge application & licensing fee.. but charges royalty per unit item sold to market..
remember that the encoding is lossless~ but in the end the decoder and its hardware play the most vital role to accurately reproduce. Nothing is fixed, everything has tolerance~
there are many difference:
major ones are such as THD+N vs freq, THD+N vs level, SNR, dynamic range compression, frequency response with/without emphasis, dialogue normalization, downmixing coefficient, speaker remapping.
only those possess high quality audio system and a keen hearing can discern until the very detail~
dont forget the speaker.