Question About Audio
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Question About Audio
Hi, I'm thinking about buying a blu-ray player since I recently bought an HDTV. I get audio from the speakers on my TV, and I was wondering if I hook up the player with an HDMI cable if I would be able to use all types of audio.
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Well, it depends on what you mean by "use all types of audio." If you just want to hear sound from the TV speakers, there won't be a problem. You just might need to set up the player so that it knows to send stereo audio over the HDMI cable instead of the lossless surround format that the TV probably wouldn't understand.
I assumed you weren't asking about surround formats because they obviously require more speakers and something to decode the audio.
I assumed you weren't asking about surround formats because they obviously require more speakers and something to decode the audio.
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Well, it depends on what you mean by "use all types of audio." If you just want to hear sound from the TV speakers, there won't be a problem. You just might need to set up the player so that it knows to send stereo audio over the HDMI cable instead of the lossless surround format that the TV probably wouldn't understand.
I assumed you weren't asking about surround formats because they obviously require more speakers and something to decode the audio.
I assumed you weren't asking about surround formats because they obviously require more speakers and something to decode the audio.
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You should be able to hear two-channel stereo for almost all movies, regardless of Dolby TrueHD, DTS HD Master, Dolby Digital 5.1, etc.
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Exactly. The TV's will just downmix the sound to the best of its ability to stereo and throw it out of your TV. You won't have any problems. However, upgrading to Blu-ray and only using the speakers on your TV isn't ideal. Better picture quality is only half the reason to get into the latest format.
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Totally agree. The stronger selling point of HD media is uncompressed audio IMO.
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I know, I'm all for uncompressed audio, but it might be a while after I get my player before I have a sound system, so I was just wondering if the audio would downmix okay. Thanks everyone!
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Later, when you get a lossless surround rig... it will be waiting for your to rediscover all those titles again with their lossless surround sound.
Last edited by beebs; 06-01-09 at 04:35 PM.