A SERIOUS QUESTION ABOUT AUDIO ON BDs

[Caligula]

I am a Deaf Blu Ray customer, my wife is hearing, I have no idea what sound is and need your help. I constantly asked my wife questions if the sound was better on BD and she said not really (About the same on SDVD). I do not understand why? Perhaps I had selected wrong audio format. Which should i select when I go into Blu Ray Audio Discs' audio option? What movie has the best AQ and please help me so my wife can enjoy hearing good sound as I am with movie's PQ. I am using Philips 42" 1080i with amblight tv. It has a long silver speaker attached under the tv.

[ClaytonMG]

What's the whole reciever situation like? Do you know if it has HDMI? There's quite a few things that could make the sound not sound that much better over regular DVD. Like speakers, reciever, or even accidently selecting the wrong audio track. Personally, the best way to tell the difference is to use a reciever with HDMI and capable of accepting PCM 5.1 or higher. If you have all that, then just simply select PCM in the menu and you should be able to tell the difference. There's also Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HDMA, but the player needs to either decode it or be able to bitstream it to a fairly new reciever. But that's a whole other thing. Once you figure out PCM, you should be set for now, and then worry about the other formats.


Edit: I see you have a PS3, if you have a movie with Dolby TrueHD, the PS3 will decode it and send it to the reciever as PCM. Just switch the audio output from Bitstream to PCM when using a TrueHD track and it'll decode it.

[richteer]

Originally Posted by Caligula

I am a Deaf Blu Ray customer, my wife is hearing, I have no idea what sound is and need your help. I constantly asked my wife questions if the sound was better on BD and she said not really (About the same on SDVD). I do not understand why? Perhaps I had selected wrong audio format. Which should i select when I go into Blu Ray Audio Discs' audio option? What movie has the best AQ and please help me so my wife can enjoy hearing good sound as I am with movie's PQ. I am using Philips 42" 1080i with amblight tv. It has a long silver speaker attached under the tv.

If I'm reading you correctly, you're playing the BD's audio through the TV's internal speakers. Is that correct?

If so, there probably won't be much difference in sound quality between BD and DVD. For BD to shine, you need some sort of surround sound set-up (5.1), preferably hooked up using HDMI.

However you hook things up, I'd say that PCM is the best audio option if that's available, otherwise DTS-MA or Dolby True-HD. I currently listen to BDs though my TV's internal speakers, and the PCm tracks sounds much better than the Dolby Digital one.

Hope this helps.