Player decoding or Receiver decoding, that is the question

[welwynnick]

OK thanks. I presume you're talking about blu-ray playback, in which case there is a problem.

The PS3 will only bitstream SD audio sources like DVD.

With HD sources like BD it can only output lossless digital audio with LPCM.

To do a fair comparison between lpcm and bitstream, you need a stand-alone player that does the appropriate internal decoding (like DTS MA to LPCM, where thats whats on the disc you're playing).

Nick