Posts by ABCD

Quote: Originally Posted by oliverjg so laserdisc was good enough for you vs. dvd since the audio is superior? did you stick with your laserdiscs for the audio even after dvd came out?... or was dvd good enough for you since the pq was...

Quote: Originally Posted by oliverjg so you think a 2.0 44k pcm track on laserdisc is more transparent to a 5.1 master then 5.1 dts? it doesn't bother you that the data was re sampled for a different rate, dropped to 16 bits remixed...

Quote: Originally Posted by jmpage2 Well, I've owned several LD players and never observed the audio to be remarkably better than some of the better mixes I've heard on SD DVD. I'm not sure what the sample rate, bit rate, etc, was on...

Quote: Originally Posted by jmpage2 I don't think that there's any question that DTS-HD/MA decoding can be done in players, the only question is how much horsepower is required to decode it. I'm not aware of Laser Disc providing...

Quote: Originally Posted by The_Dark_Knight Which is still pretty good though. No it is not. We had better audio quality than that for movies 15 years ago. That was why I said "if you care about audio, you should avoid the PS3", but...

If you bought the PS3 as a BR player, will you be buying any games for it? If you bought the PS3 primarily as a gaming machine, please do not vote.

Quote: Originally Posted by The_Dark_Knight You should really rephrase this. The PS3 does other kinds of audio. SACD, "Upconverted" CD, several compression formats, media server streaming, CDDB connectivity, ect ect. Many...

Quote: Originally Posted by 42Plasmaman Now that there is a single HDM format Really? You must know something we don't.

Quote: Originally Posted by jmpage2 My old receiver didn't do HDMi at all so no way to listen to lossless audio from EITHER the PS3 or my HDA1. I got the 1.3a receiver for about what a 1.2 job would have cost due to some connections I...

Can the gaming functionality be disabled on the PS3? I assume that there is some type of parental control that locks out gaming based on ratings? But I am hoping to just completely lock it out, so there will be no debate about playing...