Blu-ray audio question - Blu-ray Forum

FeralAsspigeon · 01-14-2009, 10:22 PM

So I recently purchased a Sony FW series laptop which has a read only blu ray drive and an HDMI out for watching movies on an actual television. My problem is that my TV only supports Dolby audio and will not decode DTS. Sound comes through fine when watching a Dolby film but there is no sound when I try and watch a film with DTS audio.

My question comes in two parts: 1) would a standalone blu ray player (PS3 for example) modify the audio so that it would work with my televison? 2) Is there any way to format the audio coming from my laptop so that it would work with my tv i.e. become audible? Thanks in advance.

Television is an LG 42LC7D

Edit: I have been poking around forums and I think I have a vague understanding of what is going on. If you play a blu-ray movie on a PS3 it decodes the audio (DTS or Dolby) and outputs it as LCPM? I assume this is something my television will understand and be able to process correctly? My laptop is not transcoding the audio source and is putting it out at full quality and my television is choking because it has no way of processing this information (the DTS-HD stuff anyway). Please let me know if I have this right.

Another_Dude · 01-14-2009, 11:53 PM

May be time to buy a receiver and run the HDMI from your computer to that.

01-14-2009, 10:22 PM	#1
FeralAsspigeon New Member Member since:Jan 2009	Blu-ray audio question So I recently purchased a Sony FW series laptop which has a read only blu ray drive and an HDMI out for watching movies on an actual television. My problem is that my TV only supports Dolby audio and will not decode DTS. Sound comes through fine when watching a Dolby film but there is no sound when I try and watch a film with DTS audio. My question comes in two parts: 1) would a standalone blu ray player (PS3 for example) modify the audio so that it would work with my televison? 2) Is there any way to format the audio coming from my laptop so that it would work with my tv i.e. become audible? Thanks in advance. Television is an LG 42LC7D Edit: I have been poking around forums and I think I have a vague understanding of what is going on. If you play a blu-ray movie on a PS3 it decodes the audio (DTS or Dolby) and outputs it as LCPM? I assume this is something my television will understand and be able to process correctly? My laptop is not transcoding the audio source and is putting it out at full quality and my television is choking because it has no way of processing this information (the DTS-HD stuff anyway). Please let me know if I have this right. Last edited by FeralAsspigeon; 01-15-2009 at 02:05 AM.

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01-14-2009, 11:53 PM	#2
Another_Dude Blu-ray Guru Member since:Dec 2008 Blu-ray collection:191 Blu-ray reviews:8	May be time to buy a receiver and run the HDMI from your computer to that.

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