Sony BDP-S550 Or PS3

[zsultan]

Hello,

I am a new member here, need help in choosing a blu ray player.

I recently bought a HD camcorder (Canon HF100), so to view my home videos i was thinking of buying a Blu ray player. I also own Yamaha Z9 receiver for my home theatre with Paradigm studio series speakers and subwoofer.

I bought Sony-BDPS550 today from circuitcity since it has inbuilt decoders for Dolby True HD and DTS HD and 7.1 analog out since my Z9 doesnt have those decoders built in and also no HDMI input. I tested the audio of the blu ray player with Indiana Jones blu ray disc. I connected blu ray player to Z9 through 7.1 analog input and to my surprise i found that Dolby Digital as well as Dolby True HD decoding quality of BDP-S550 is crap, then i connected my Z9 through optical cable and decoded through Z9 ofcourse it was decoding only DD core of the Dolby True HD, but it sounded awesome. There was a difference of day and night.

My questions to audio experts out there is does Dolby Digital and Dolby True HD sound way different? I mean whether the quality of lossless format far better than lossy format or they have very sutle sound quality difference?

I like my Z9 receiver and do not want to spend money to upgrade to a Dolby True HD capable receiver if the difference is not very noticable and also thinking of getting a PS3 for playing blu ray discs, since its a player as well as game console and can hook up my receiver to it through optical cable.

Please advise.

Thanks in advance.