Bitstreaming takes away menu sounds and pip!

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Originally Posted by RBBrittain

Mixing LPCM isn't the problem, nor does mixing a lossy stream into a lossless stream at LPCM level necessarily make it lossy. I think the limiting factor may be whether or not the player can decode *both* HD audio (main sound) *and* DD/DTS (menu/PIP) at the same time; I hinted at that in the post you were responding to.

The PS3 can do that because IIRC (and definitely for TrueHD & DTS-HD MA, both added by post-launch updates) its decoders are in software; it's just a matter of multitasking, if not multi-threading. If a stand-alone BD player has separate TrueHD/DTS-HD MA and DD/DTS decoder chips, it might be able to do it as well. But if they're on the same chip, that might be a problem...

agreed, that is what the person who started this thread was asking, that's what i've been saying all along, "at the same time" so far, as you have stated only the PS3 can do it. i don't think players want to have to raise the price of their machines just for that, i wouldn't buy a machine at the extra cost just to have full HD & secondary aludio it's not worth the cost, for me; i'm sure others would pay for it.

i think we have beat this one to death, lets go and have a cold one and watch some football, hey, it's Monday Night!