Bluray Player Audio Support Comparison Chart - Page 8

Originally Posted by EWL5

That's funny. The SonyStyle site has MSRP listed at $499.99 and available 10/13/2008. I've never known Crutchfield to report something that wasn't MSRP for a new item.

http://www.sonystyle.com/webapp/wcs/...52921665368407

Even the Crutchfield site reports otherwise (10/17/2008 availability). Must be a typo in the mag:

http://www.crutchfield.com/app/produ...50&search=s550

Edit: looks like MA decoding may make it in this machine after all. The SonyStyle website said otherwise as recent as last week?

Originally Posted by nate358

I'll be saving this mag to see if Best Buy will price match!

Originally Posted by kitchen_space

The table is really, really out of date. Is there a site somewhere else that has up to date information? There have been a lot of units announced.

Originally Posted by EWL5

That will only work if you have a brick and mortar Crutchfield in the area. Do you?

Originally Posted by acg101

I have Onkyio 875 connected to a Pioneer 505 via component and the BD50 via HDMI. I get only sound and blue screen, works ok if I use component.
Help
Dana

Originally Posted by Bill Gaw2

Have a multi-channel Blu Ray disc from 2L called Divertimento that is audio only with all tracks with DTS-A, Dolby True HD an PCM but all recorded at 24/192. My Samsung 5000 trnasmite the 24/192 but only as two channel except the DTS-MA. Is there a BluRay player that will transmit 24/192 myltichannel for Dolbt True HD an d PCM?

Bill

Originally Posted by fishinbob

I have a Yamaha DSP A1 (5.1)with coaxial digital audio inputs. I see that the 550 has one of these as an output as well. Will I be losing any audio from the 7.1 Sony or can I let the Yamaha do the processing? I also have the optical to use as well. I'm not sure about the audio tracks on the Blu Ray discs either. I just want a full 5.1 signal with DD and or DTS.

Originally Posted by EvenSteven

I Copy-Pasted this: This week the first No Name Chinese player was released in Scandinavia under the name TECSONIC BHD8866.
It's a profile 1.1 player that decodes DD/DTS HD in the player and outputs MA over HDMI."
From this thread: http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showt...1067485&page=2
And I'm wondering if someone, somehow, can verify TECSONIC BHD8866's decoding capabilities?
I need internally decoding of HD-audio for my Yamaha Rx-v2600.

Edit: Update ... found a User manual online: http://www.netlogic.se/bhd8866.asp
It stated:
3.1 AUDIO OUTPUT CAPABILITIES
Each of the digital audio outputs are capable of different levels of functionality, as described in the table below. Actual output will depend on setup menu settings, what types of audio tracks are encoded on the disk, and, for HDMI, TV capabilities.
1) Core portion of this track will be passed to the audio receiver if the receiver has the capability to decode this format
2) Raw digital track will be passed through to the audio receiver if the receiver has the capability to decode this format, OR the track can be mixed with other disk audio (for example, director's commentary or special effects from button pushes) and then re-encoded to multichannel DTS or stereo PCM.
3) Dolby Digital Plus, Dolby TrueHD, and DTS-HD tracks can be decoded and re-encoded to multichannel DTS and stereo PCM
4) Decoded, mixed with effects and secondary channel, and converted to Analog

Me being Norwegian and somewhat slow would appreciate a translation :-)

Does it do the same as the PS3? Regarding number 3) I'm just a little confused by the re-coding to Multichannel DTS ? If it said MPCM i would be satisfied, but this I don't understand.. A Dolby True HD signal converted/re-coded into DTS or stereo? I don't want that..

Originally Posted by EWL5

The manual claims the player can decode all and transcode to 1.5Mbps DTS. This is not a bad option for those who want lossless quality but only have a legacy decoder in the receiver. At least with 1.5Mbps DTS, the transcode will get you mostly there in terms of hearing lossless!

Originally Posted by fishinbob

Thanks BIslander,
I couldn't ask for anything more.

Originally Posted by Spiky

FWIW, that is a requirement of the BD system. That is hardly a feature.

Originally Posted by conradjohnsonfan

I was reading in another forum and came across the statement that the Denon 3800 is the only Blu-Ray player that will internally decode and output DTS-MA as 7.1 LPCM. Same statement said that all other players that internally decode DTS-MA only output the format as 5.1 LPCM.

Is this correct?

Originally Posted by teachsac

The BD35 does 7.1 also over HDMI.

S~

Originally Posted by EWL5

Yeah but it doesn't decode. We are strictly talking about lossless decoding players.

Originally Posted by YetAnotherMatt

Sure it does. The BD35 doesn't have 7.1 analog out - that's what the BD55 is for - but it will decode DTS-HD MA and output it as LPCM over HDMI.

Originally Posted by adidino

So I added the latest chart and added what I had noted. I'm sure I'm missing some things. If I'm missing anything or you notice anything incorrect in the chart, let me know and I'll add it.