AVR, Blu-ray, analog audio, DTS master & Dolby True HD

[BIslander]

Originally Posted by duder1234

I'm looking at my 2803 manual...pg. 68, and there's no talk of adjusting channel levels using the remote.

*EDIT* I found this on pg. 49

That's it. My error. I must have been looking at the 2805 manual online, not the 2803. But, that particular page is the same in both manuals.

Could you tell me what page the EQ info is on...I've never come across it in my manual before.

You're right. It's not in the 2803 manual. Sorry about that.

On a side note, I used both the analog and digital signals when playing a movie. I then hit the "display" button on my BDP-320's remote. In BOTH cases it showed 48Hz and 3-5mbps. Does this mean I'm not getting DTS Master/ Dolby true HD? I thought the lossless would be a higher mbps.

Apples and oranges. The player is only playing the one track you selected on the disc and that's what the player display is showing. It is not showing you anything about the two different outputs you're trying.

The digital bitstream output over optical is actually a lossy version of the lossless track that's being played. If you select a dts-MA track, the lossy DTS output will be 1.5 mbps. If you select a TrueHD track, the lossy DD 5.1 output will be 640 kbps.

Meanwhile, the analog output is something completely different. The digital file has already been converted to analog by the player and there's no such thing as bitrate when it comes to measuring/describing analog.

As for expecting to see a higher bitrate on the player display with dts-MA and TrueHD, lossless codecs use variable bitrates, taking as much bandwidth as they need at any given moment. If you are only seeing 3-5 mbps, that's all the track requires at that particular time.