I can't seem to find an answer for this anywhere clearly so I thought I would try asking.
First, I just finally picked up a PS3 (only for playing movies as I am not a gamer) last night (came with Spidey 3) and am quite happy with it.
I finally started to understand some things about dts-ma and dolby truehd decoding etc and was very happy to realize that I don't really need to upgrade my Denon 2807.
Now my question. Previously with SD as on my Sony 999ES DVD/SACD player, when I connect the receiver with the 6 rca cables for playback of SACD, there are options in the player for bass management and speaker distance settings etc. I believe I can also do this for DVDs as well when I want the Sony to decode the standard DD or DTS streams. I just have to put the receiver into the "external channel in" mode.
However, it seems with LPCM over HDMI, I don't need to worry about bass management, crossovers, speaker distances etc in the player? With this setup, all of the settings in the receiver still apply and the receiver still takes care of all of that?
I think I know the answer is "yes" but it's bugging me and I just wanted to get some confirmation.
What this means off course is that all this time I have been a fool by not paying attention as apparently my Toshiba A30 also decodes Dolby TrueHD and sends it as LPCM over HDMI and I haven't been using that.
Thanks,
-- Sanjay
First, I just finally picked up a PS3 (only for playing movies as I am not a gamer) last night (came with Spidey 3) and am quite happy with it.
I finally started to understand some things about dts-ma and dolby truehd decoding etc and was very happy to realize that I don't really need to upgrade my Denon 2807.
Now my question. Previously with SD as on my Sony 999ES DVD/SACD player, when I connect the receiver with the 6 rca cables for playback of SACD, there are options in the player for bass management and speaker distance settings etc. I believe I can also do this for DVDs as well when I want the Sony to decode the standard DD or DTS streams. I just have to put the receiver into the "external channel in" mode.
However, it seems with LPCM over HDMI, I don't need to worry about bass management, crossovers, speaker distances etc in the player? With this setup, all of the settings in the receiver still apply and the receiver still takes care of all of that?
I think I know the answer is "yes" but it's bugging me and I just wanted to get some confirmation.
What this means off course is that all this time I have been a fool by not paying attention as apparently my Toshiba A30 also decodes Dolby TrueHD and sends it as LPCM over HDMI and I haven't been using that.
Thanks,
-- Sanjay