The Sony BDP-S360 Review Thread

[BIslander]

Originally Posted by Kryptonic

I've got a question regarding the DRC. There are four selections - Auto, Standard, TV, and Wide Range. I've had it on Auto, which it states uses the DRC from the BD being played. But I'm interested in seeing if there's any difference between Auto and Wide Range, which the manual states uses no compression. Is there supposed to be any difference between these two settings?

I have the DRC turned off in the receiver, just in case someone asks.

DRC is only applied by the device doing the decoding. So, if you are bitstreaming from the S360, none of its settings come into play. If you are decoding in the S360, then the AVR's settings don't matter.

Wide Range means no DRC.
Auto means the player uses DRC if instructed to do so by the disc. Further, it uses the amount of DRC specified by the disc. To the best of my knowledge, Iron Man is the only disc that triggers DRC in decoders set to Auto. There may be others, but no one on any bulletinboard I follow has identified another one.