DTS lossless 5.1 and PCM 5.1

[Leopold BUTTERS]

sorry this is my dads BD player and reciever its a ps3 and the reciver is a sony STRDG810 and it always says PCM 5.1 no matter what i select in the movies. It will say PCM 5.1 when i pick DD 5.1 or DTS 5.1...so what exactly does that mean. http://www.visions.ca/catalogue/category/Details.aspx?categoryId=143&productId=708&menuId=3 68&parentId1=139&parentId2=''&parentId3=''&menuLev el=2

[crackinhedz]

Originally Posted by Leopold BUTTERS

sorry this is my dads BD player and reciever its a ps3 and the reciver is a sony STRDG810 and it always says PCM 5.1 no matter what i select in the movies. It will say PCM 5.1 when i pick DD 5.1 or DTS 5.1...so what exactly does that mean. http://www.visions.ca/catalogue/category/Details.aspx?categoryId=143&productId=708&menuId=3 68&parentId1=139&parentId2=''&parentId3=''&menuLev el=2

It means the PS3 is outputting HDMI Audio via Linear PCM.

Settings - BD/DVD Settings - BD / DVD Audio Output Format (HDMI) - Linear PCM or Bitstream

[Leopold BUTTERS]

okay so all it means is it takes the DTS and the DD and tries to make into a PCM signal? so i am still geting my DD and DTS but the ps3 converts it..

[crackinhedz]

Originally Posted by Leopold BUTTERS

okay so all it means is it takes the DTS and the DD and tries to make into a PCM signal? so i am still geting my DD and DTS but the ps3 converts it..

exactly.

so if you want the receiver to decode, set it to Bitstream.



(NOTE: To hear Dolby TrueHD, you must set PS3 to Linear PCM)

[saprano]

i think dts lossless is compressed then uncompressed, for example think of it like a zip file. where as pcm is raw data nothing is touched everything is thrown on the disc, i hope i got that right .