Help with settings for PS3 & Receiver

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Originally Posted by Petra_Kalbrain

Sort of. I'm not a technical expert when it comes to the finer points of audio. But, what I do understand is that with ALL sound tracks included on a DVD/HD-DVD/Blu-ray that are not "Uncompressed Linear PCM" are in fact stored as compressed data on the disc. That means that the file is treated much like a ZIP file on your computer. They have to encode it into a shrinked little package. This means that they not only remove the really fine detail to make it more space conservative, but then the players have to actually work at decoding the information before it gets output to your receiver. With the "Uncompressed Linear PCM" tracks, none of that process affects the quality of sound since the information is neither shrunk for storage nor does the player have to work to decode the information. It would be comparable to a dam. Uncompressed Linear PCM would be like having a river run its natural course. You get all of the beauty of how the experience is meant to be seen. Put a dam in that same spot and you have created a scenario like every other track on the market. Only some of the water gets through and the energy needed to do so thrusts the signal through without consideration for the finesse of its natural beauty!

Does that answer your question?

Perfectly! What you were saying about storing the audio on the discs was next question! Cheers.