HD-dts?
11-26-09 | 10:28 AM
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HD-dts?
If you don't have a HD-dts receiver and you play it thru your regular receiver -does it still produce dts sound?
11-26-09 | 04:26 PM
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Re: HD-dts?
Some more information (you might want to check the glossary in the first post of the Blu-ray Disc Player Thread):
DTS-HD High Resolution — most players can decode this but it is NOT lossless and is little used on Blu-ray Discs.
DTS-HD Master Audio — this is the lossless audio codec; some players can decode it and others can't. Some players can "bitstream" the audio to a new HDMI 1.3 receiver that can decode it.
If you don't have a new model receiver than can decode the lossless codecs, but your BD player DOES decode them, you can send the audio to your receiver over HDMI.
If you don't have an HDMI receiver and want to get lossless audio, you will need to use the receiver's six or eight channel analog inputs and you will need a BD player that can output analog (for example: the Panasonic BD80).
If you have a receiver that doesn't have HDMI input and you don't have a player with analog output, you will need to use the optical or coax SPDIF input, much as you do with DVD players. In this case, the BD player will extract the core DTS audio from the DTS-HD MA and send that instead. The old optical or coax SPDIF inputs can't handle the bandwidth of lossless audio, only HDMI or analog can.
If this doesn't answer your question, please be more specific.
DTS-HD High Resolution — most players can decode this but it is NOT lossless and is little used on Blu-ray Discs.
DTS-HD Master Audio — this is the lossless audio codec; some players can decode it and others can't. Some players can "bitstream" the audio to a new HDMI 1.3 receiver that can decode it.
If you don't have a new model receiver than can decode the lossless codecs, but your BD player DOES decode them, you can send the audio to your receiver over HDMI.
If you don't have an HDMI receiver and want to get lossless audio, you will need to use the receiver's six or eight channel analog inputs and you will need a BD player that can output analog (for example: the Panasonic BD80).
If you have a receiver that doesn't have HDMI input and you don't have a player with analog output, you will need to use the optical or coax SPDIF input, much as you do with DVD players. In this case, the BD player will extract the core DTS audio from the DTS-HD MA and send that instead. The old optical or coax SPDIF inputs can't handle the bandwidth of lossless audio, only HDMI or analog can.
If this doesn't answer your question, please be more specific.
11-26-09 | 06:56 PM
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Re: HD-dts?
Some more information (you might want to check the glossary in the first post of the Blu-ray Disc Player Thread):
DTS-HD High Resolution — most players can decode this but it is NOT lossless and is little used on Blu-ray Discs.
DTS-HD Master Audio — this is the lossless audio codec; some players can decode it and others can't. Some players can "bitstream" the audio to a new HDMI 1.3 receiver that can decode it.
If you don't have a new model receiver than can decode the lossless codecs, but your BD player DOES decode them, you can send the audio to your receiver over HDMI.
If you don't have an HDMI receiver and want to get lossless audio, you will need to use the receiver's six or eight channel analog inputs and you will need a BD player that can output analog (for example: the Panasonic BD80).
If you have a receiver that doesn't have HDMI input and you don't have a player with analog output, you will need to use the optical or coax SPDIF input, much as you do with DVD players. In this case, the BD player will extract the core DTS audio from the DTS-HD MA and send that instead. The old optical or coax SPDIF inputs can't handle the bandwidth of lossless audio, only HDMI or analog can.
If this doesn't answer your question, please be more specific.
DTS-HD High Resolution — most players can decode this but it is NOT lossless and is little used on Blu-ray Discs.
DTS-HD Master Audio — this is the lossless audio codec; some players can decode it and others can't. Some players can "bitstream" the audio to a new HDMI 1.3 receiver that can decode it.
If you don't have a new model receiver than can decode the lossless codecs, but your BD player DOES decode them, you can send the audio to your receiver over HDMI.
If you don't have an HDMI receiver and want to get lossless audio, you will need to use the receiver's six or eight channel analog inputs and you will need a BD player that can output analog (for example: the Panasonic BD80).
If you have a receiver that doesn't have HDMI input and you don't have a player with analog output, you will need to use the optical or coax SPDIF input, much as you do with DVD players. In this case, the BD player will extract the core DTS audio from the DTS-HD MA and send that instead. The old optical or coax SPDIF inputs can't handle the bandwidth of lossless audio, only HDMI or analog can.
If this doesn't answer your question, please be more specific.
11-26-09 | 11:16 PM
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Re: HD-dts?
The bitrate of the "core" DTS stream is 1.5 Mbps, which is what the bitrate was for those older Universal DTS-only DVD releases they made to go alongside their standard "collector's edition" DVDs. Apollo 13, Saving Private Ryan and Dante's Peak are the only ones I'm familiar with (don't have "Ryan" but I have the other two) and I'm sure there were others as well. The rationale behind those was the larger, full-bitrate DTS tracks wouldn't fit alongside the extras and Dolby 5.1 tracks, so they released them as separate bare-bones discs. The Blu-ray releases with DTS HD or DTS High Resolution are probably the only discs since then to have full-bitrate DTS available if people don't have the HD audio capabilities, since the average DVD with DTS uses half the bitrate, at 768 Kbps instead.
11-27-09 | 12:13 AM
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Re: HD-dts?
Actually, this wasn't a simple question. Hence the answers.
