PS3 Slim Bitstream Setup Problem

[Big Daddy]

Bitstreaming does not really offer any adavantages. I have the Oppo BDP-83 Blu-ray player. It can bitstream HD audio, but I intentionally set it to PCM. It is a lot more convenient and the audio is as good as bitstreaming.

For additional information, read A Guide to Home Theater Audio Codecs. It has a sticky in Audio Theory & Discussions. Scroll about half way down and you will find a detailed discussion of bitstreaming. This is a short paragraph from there:

The downside to sending the advanced audio codecs in native bitstream is that you can only send the movie soundtrack itself. Any secondary content, like menu beeps or the audio that accompanies Picture-in-Picture interactive features is not part of the original bitstream and will not be transmitted. Audio commentaries and alternative-language audio may also be affected, depending on how the disc was authored. The only way to send the additional content is by allowing the disc player to perform the audio decoding itself, during which the player mixes the new material on top of the movie soundtrack for transmission in either PCM or analog format.