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In Reply to: RE: you won't lose surround sound posted by Joe Murphy Jr on June 19, 2011 at 13:02:58
Lossy? Yeah, but truthfully for movies it hardly makes a difference. Same quality as standard DVD which means it's still pretty good.
Baba-Booey to you all!
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It's an upconverting DVD player, not a Blu-ray or HD-DVD. So, there will be no multichannel lossless sound coming out of it. Just lossy Dolby Digital, DTS, or good old-fashioned PCM stereo.
With a good system, lossless is much better. Especially with the right movie.
We'll have to agree to disagree about global warming until the next global cooling scare comes along
That wasn't my point in the least.
He said he'd lose surround sound via optical and I corrected that misunderstanding: he'd only lose the capability of lossless surround playback (provided his player even supported lossless codec capability), not lossy surround playback.
Never bust anyones' balls for giving you better quality, especially when it comes to the movie studios. Remember that format called DVD? They dicked us with lossy audio crap -- Dolby Digital. Now we're getting lossless 24/48 DTS-HD Master Audio as the de facto audio codec for Blu-ray. Don't bitch about whether or not people can tell the difference.
Let me ask you this question. If you have lossless codec capability in your system, do you switch to the lossy audio track when you watch a Blu-ray movie? After all, "it hardly makes a difference", right?
I was only trying to point out to the OP that he can use the optical cable and still get multi-channel audio. Of course lossless is preferred, but the optical is better than nothing, and as you point out he may not have the ability to use the lossless option anyway. I wasn't critiquing your statement in the least.
Baba-Booey to you all!
"I was only trying to point out to the OP that he can use the optical cable and still get multi-channel audio."
Didn't I already say that?
"Via optical, all but the lossless surround (DTS-HD Master Audio Dolby TrueHD) and uncompressed surround (5.1/7.1 PCM) formats will be transmitted. In the case of the lossless surround formats, the lossy version will be transmitted via optical."
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