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In Reply to: RE: (20% of HD DVD movies have lossless track.... posted by oscar on September 11, 2007 at 10:54:19
Which is surprising considering 60% of BDs are BD-25s, and 50% use MPEG2.
Jack
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Depending on which specific audio track, not very many from what I've been reading on other forums.
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.
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!
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.
No handshake issues at all.
Jack
Perhaps in the future at a better price.
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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And it showed on some of the early Blu-ray releases. Storage capacity limitations probably kept the video bitrates low for the 25G (and will continue to do so if Warner's continues to put Blu-ray stuff on 25G disks). Issue mostly disappeared with 50G disks.
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