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Old 03-15-2007, 06:31 PM   #407
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Originally Posted by Esox50 View Post
My 'worry' is that once we start mixing in PIP and other interactive audio, the overall fidelity will somehow be reduced.
If there is no PIP or interactive audio enabled by the user, the main audio is untouched.

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I for one would love to see manufacturers allow people to use the mixed audio from the player (like, say lossy Dolby Digital or lossy DTS 5.1 mixed with the PIP/interactive) for noncritical listening... but for the lossless streams have them be as "untouched" as possible...
There is a big push to be able to send the main audio bitstream over HDMI 1.3 and we have been working on supporting that.

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..and completely avoid the cheaper decoding and/or mixing chips/circuits in the players (and have the stream sent to a high end pre/pro for decoding and D/A).
Gee, thanks.