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It means you have to do your homework if your end goal is lossless audio playback.

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oscar

In Reply to: RE: But How Many Players Can Successfully Access Certain Tracks? posted by Robertc88 on September 12, 2007 at 05:49:54

Are you going to use the 5.1 outputs from your source player or from your Receiver or Preamp/processor ?

If you are planning to use the 5.1 analog outputs from your source player, you need to make sure the player can decode the audio tracks you want (e.g. TrueHD, DTS HD MA (not to be confused with DTS HD)). And be sure your receiver has 5.1 analog bypass.

If you want the Receiver to do the 5.1 analog outputs, you will need to send the digital audio over HDMI. Does your source player send bitstream and/or PCM over HDMI ? Does your receiver accept bitstream/PCM ? Does either and/or both decode TrueHD or DTS HD MA properly ?

I think too many people do not realize you cannot get 5.1 lossless audio over coax/optical.

Follow Ups:

Not Sure Homework Is The Issue - Robertc88 05:46:52 09/13/07 (4)
Read through the avsforum's audio section for amps, receivers, and processors.

There appear to be lots of issues for handshaking the audio between the player and amps regardless what they are capable of decoding!
- Homework is figuring which of those combinations of receivers/source players will allow lossless playback. - oscar 17:22:10 09/13/07 (0)
  Perhaps easier said than done. As Jack G suggested, one "easy" way out is get a player with analog out and will decode everything. The downside to this you probably won't have any kind of bass management (or limited at best), time alignment, subsonic filtering, 5.1/7.1 speaker "remapping" or other goodies you might want in a processor. You'd also want very good DACs of the kind typically only found in Receivers or Pre/pros.
- Then get a player with analog out - Jack G 07:04:01 09/13/07 (2)
  No handshake issues at all.
  Jack
  - Slim Pickings For HD DVD Right Now - Robertc88 10:46:29 09/14/07 (1)
    Perhaps in the future at a better price.
    - RE: Slim Pickings For HD DVD Right Now - Jack G 05:55:53 09/15/07 (0)
      Perhaps, but they are all complete. Right now, you can get all 3 second gen players, plus both of the first gen(but you have to look harder), and you can order 1 of the third gen. players. That's 6 plus the XBOX add-on, all of which meet specs. How many BD players are there?
      If you include first gen, you have 2 Sonys, 2 sammys, 1 panny(10 and 10A are the same except for FW), 1 pioneer, plus the PS3. All of which will be obsolete November 1. Yea, thats a whole lot more isn't it?
      There's also the dual players.
      Jack

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