DTS-HD Master Audio/Essential QUESTION

[crispicazzo]

Dear friends,
I´m planning to buy the Samsung home theater in a box HT-BD1250.
I have a few questions that probablly you can give me some light on it.-

1) This Home Theater offers 5.1 instead of 7.1 channels. What if I put a BD with 7.1 channels?
2) Will be able to hear PCM 5.1 lossless audio?
3) What does it means DTS-HD Master Audio/Essential?

I have a PS3 and stream the audio via optical to my actual Home Theater.

What I´m looking for is to get the real capeable audio experiencie that BD offers.

Will this home theather provide me with that experience, even with that "Essential" thing?

Thank you very much for your help buddies!



-Cheers!

[Steve]

I'm not sure about the "essential" thing, but if you're streaming the audio from your PS3 to this system over an optical cable , then you will NOT be able to get lossless PMC 5.1. I think you can get lossless 2.0 though. Also if you put in a 7.1 movie on a 5.1 system, then usually the surround back channels are merged into the surround channels, so you don't lose anything. However, again if you're using an optical cable, this is a moot point, since you won't be able to listen to the 7.1 audio track anyway. When you use anything other than HDMI or multi-channel analog connections for audio, then your choices are Dolby Digital and DTS. You can't listen to lossless formats (Dolby TrueHD, DTS HD Master Audio, Uncompressed LPCM).

[Steve]

Ok disregard some of what I said in my last post. I'm sorry, I didn't realize the system you're getting has a blu-ray player as part of the system. I thought you meant you would still be using your PS3 with this system, and it appears this system's player can decode lossless audio. What I said about 7.1 movies on a 5.1 system should still hold true though.

I have to ask though, since you already have a PS3, why get a new system that includes another blu-ray player? You'd get substantially better audio quality if you went with a receiver of some kind and separate speakers and continued using your PS3. HTiB speakers aren't of the highest quality and won't provide you with the best audio experience.

[crispicazzo]

Originally Posted by fireman325

Ok disregard some of what I said in my last post. I'm sorry, I didn't realize the system you're getting has a blu-ray player as part of the system. I thought you meant you would still be using your PS3 with this system, and it appears this system's player can decode lossless audio. What I said about 7.1 movies on a 5.1 system should still hold true though.

I have to ask though, since you already have a PS3, why get a new system that includes another blu-ray player? You'd get substantially better audio quality if you went with a receiver of some kind and separate speakers and continued using your PS3. HTiB speakers aren't of the highest quality and won't provide you with the best audio experience.

Steve,
Thank you so much for your answers.
The PS3 connected to a Home Theater via optical is what I have now.
I only can heard Dolby and DTS signals using optical. Of course I can not have the PCM audio.

I love the PS3 but I really hate the noise caused by the fans.

So, I want to buy a Home Theater where I can experience the Dolby True HD as well as the DTS-HD master audio. I found the Samsung HT-BD1250 wich is beautiful. It have 5.1 channeles, 1000-watts.

I´m planning to have this home theater as my main source to see and heard BD movies. I´m looking for have the real HD sound experience on this.
My only concerne is that this HT said.- DTS-HD Master Audio "Essential".

So, what I wanted to know is if I will be able to get the real DTS-HD experience or not as well as the PCM lossless audio with this equipment?

Probably I was not clear from the beggining.
-Sorry by that.

Thank you so much in advance,
Cris.

[EWL5]

Go here if you want to find out what "Essential" means:

https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread...s-hd+essential

[Zman2k2]

I see nothing on the Samsung website about DTS HD "Essential". It just mentions that the player can decode or bitstream TrueHD and DTS HD-MA. Sounds to me like it will do exactly what you're looking for. Although I do agree with fireman325, you'd probably get better performance from separates rather than a HTiB offering. But if you're set on it, it should work for you just fine.
SAmsung product page.

[tlmaclennan]

It's exactly what EWL5 linked to. The Essential means that they took out older DTS modes that are not necesary for Blu-ray audio (ES, ES Discrete 6.1, Neo:6, 96/24). YOu will get full DTS-HD MA and Dolby TrueHD playback. As well as PCM.

[BLURAYSONYES]

this samsung htib will give you all the true hd and dts hd but I dont think youll get the full benifit through those tiny speakers it comes with. any movie with a 7.1 will be sounded to a 5.1 no matter what.

[crispicazzo]

Thanks everyone for your comments and thoughts.
I really aprecciated.