PS3 DTS MA & TrueHD Questions

[rock-ranger]

Originally Posted by nhaase

Why do you like the pure bitstream output instead of ps3 decoding it?

Well, first of all I have read somewhere that it is always better to let the AV Receiver decode it for whatever reason. Unfortunately I cannot find that article anymore so I can't send you the link.

But aside from this I still have the feeling that the PS3 does not fully support TrueHD as it still shows only the core 640k data rate.

I did not check to set the output to PCM generally as this is no option for me as with this setting even standard DD and DTS will be sent out as PCM.

And, finally I have learned that DTS MA is not supported by the PS3 at all which is in fact a disappointment as many titles I own does have such a track.

I'm sure you will agree with me that it does not make sense to buy a new AV reveiver which supports all new audio standards and feed it with pre-decoded material in PCM. You don't know what's happening and also you will not benefit from the information which is shown in your receiver display as you will always see PCM only!

I doubt that bitstream out is a problem because of the chipset used, as it is 1.3 it should be good enough to support bitstream out for the new standards by a firmware upgrade. As it can send PCM it surely has enough room for these as well.

I really like the PS3 as a blu ray player (I don't play games on it!) and I have thought about replacing it with an affordable standalone player like the Samsung 1400, but then you get a machine which does not have the same upscaling quality for standard DVD's and a much slower disc access...

So I still hope that the PS3 will be perfected by a few things which are important for me (e.g. upscaling of SD content on blu ray discs)