[hifiaudio2]

I must have missed this in the million threads on the Xa2...


From the Ultimateavmag.com CES blurb:


I was going to give you the specs for Toshiba's new HD-XA2, but why don't I just show them to you? Notice that while the player supports Dolby TrueHD, it only supports the core track of DTS HD Master Audio. That is, the player will not decode DTS HD Master Audio to full resolution multichannel PCM for transmission to your audio system via HDMI as digital PCM (or convert it to analog for extraction from the player's analog outs in full resolution). Instead it will play back such a track as standard DTS. Presumably it will transmit DTS HD Master Audio in its native form through the HDMI 1.3 link, but we still will need AV receivers or pre-pros that will accept and decode that form of signal from an HDMI 1.3 connection. As yet, none will do so, but we expect to see them within the next year.

 

[hifiaudio2]

Just realized I didnt really ask the question I meant to.


The question is this:


If the DTS MA cannot be decoded in the player, and the disc that has it is one of those "Advanced Discs" where the audio MUST be decoded in the player, then how do we get DTS MA out?


I just had thought that all I read said the new Toshiba's were fully in spec and ready for all of the features except 1080p24 that was coming. Is that not true?

 

[bobgpsr]



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Originally Posted by hifiaudio2 /forum/post/0


If the DTS MA cannot be decoded in the player, and the disc that has it is one of those "Advanced Discs" where the audio MUST be decoded in the player, then how do we get DTS MA out?

You get dts-HD Core - the legacy 1509 kbps dts -- for now pending a new firmware update

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I just had thought that all I read said the new Toshiba's were fully in spec and ready for all of the features except 1080p24 that was coming. Is that not true?

Not quite -- we need the dts-HD MA capability and some users need a fix for a DVI display getting stuck on 480p -- along with the 1080p/24. The dts booth at CES used a XA2 to demo dts-HD MA so we are given hope that it is real and we will be getting a firmware update to add it to our players.

 

[casper77]

^^^^^^ This off topic, but I'd like to see if DTS has plan on seeling those DTS HD DVD demo discs?

 

[LarryChanin]



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Originally Posted by bobgpsr /forum/post/0


The dts booth at CES used a XA2 to demo dts-HD MA so we are given hope that it is real and we will be getting a firmware update to add it to our players.

Good point. Here's a sketchy report from Secrets of Home Theater and High Fidelity
DTS booth at CES


Presumably if the HD-XA2 prerelease firmware upgrade is good enough to be used by DTS on a demonstration machine, then a release to the consumers shouldn't be too far away.

Larry