AC-3 vs Anamorphic

[jajuka81]

The 2 things you mentioned are actually unrelated.

AC-3 refers to sound (Dolby Digital)
Anamorphic refers to it being widescreen format, and enhanced for widescreen TVs.

Someone correct me if I'm wrong on this.

[G9logitech]

thanks for the reply.

I just thought this since the AC-3 and Anamorphic where in the same area on both blu rays. I just got confused.

So, which blu ray would be better in picture quality, anamorphic in not said in the collectors edition, however, AC-3 is.

COLLECTOR'S EDITION CASINO ROYALE BLU RAY
Format: AC-3, Collector's Edition, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, Subtitled, Widescreen

REGULAR CASINO ROYALE BLU RAY
Format: Anamorphic, Color, Dolby, Subtitled, Widescreen

thanks for your time


EDIT: i heard the older blu ray of this movie only had LPCM HD audio, but the newer version has TrueHD. Maybe this was Quantum of Solace though.

[G9logitech]

nevermind. I found out the answer. "ONLY" the collector's edition has TrueHD audio. The regular only has LPCM 5.1 audio (16 bit/48khz)

Thanks to bluray.com. Did not know this place had this option to search and get very detailed information about blu ray discs here.

Thanks BluRay.com

[DMC86X]

Originally Posted by G9logitech

nevermind. I found out the answer. "ONLY" the collector's edition has TrueHD audio. The regular only has LPCM 5.1 audio (16 bit/48khz)

Thanks to bluray.com. Did not know this place had this option to search and get very detailed information about blu ray discs here.
Thanks BluRay.com

Yea this is a very informative site.

[hanser]

Originally Posted by G9logitech

nevermind. I found out the answer. "ONLY" the collector's edition has TrueHD audio. The regular only has LPCM 5.1 audio (16 bit/48khz)

you realize, that TrueHD does not sound better than LPCM? Both are lossless audio formats.

[KayaM]

Originally Posted by hanser

you realize, that TrueHD does not sound better than LPCM? Both are lossless audio formats.

But on Casino Royale, it does.

[progers13]

Originally Posted by KayaM

But on Casino Royale, it does.

Agreed. Even the review on this site stops short of saying it was remastered for the Collector's Edition, but there's no denying the TrueHD sound is better than the LPCM - in this case (Certainly not trying to start another debate over the merits of PCM v TrueHD v DTS-HD MA. I know they're all lossless and theoretically the same).

[G9logitech]

ok. now I am really confused. I thought I had this down to the "T".

So if LPCM sounds better than TrueHD, how should I connect my blu ray player to my receiver? Should I set my blu ray's player settings to LPCM, PCM, or Bitstream output to the receiver? (sorry I had asked this question before, but now im very confused)


When I asked this before, I was told I should output via LPCM output from my player to my receiver all with HDMI... Then I was told to output only video from HDMI and use analogue for audio and HDaudio... So what is it?

Thanks

[js666]

Originally Posted by jajuka81

The 2 things you mentioned are actually unrelated.

AC-3 refers to sound (Dolby Digital)
Anamorphic refers to it being widescreen format, and enhanced for widescreen TVs.

Someone correct me if I'm wrong on this.

Correct.
oooooHHHH, I remember AC-3 back in the laserdisc days.