Life's getting complicated.....

Before my new Blu-Ray and AV Receiver, life were simpler with my HTIB... always choose DTS.

Now?
Got Uncompressed PCM la, DTS MA la, DTS HD, Dolby HD, PLII Movie, Neo ,THX, etc..etc..

Due to old habit, I still look for DTS where possible, Dolby being the next. But what about this "Uncompressed 5.1 PCM"? Any noticeable performance? Am I missing anything?

What's your preference?

if you have decent speakers and those AVR capable of handling HD audio, the differences are obvious. Even my wife notice the different.

Thanks mpyw.
For sure I'd go for HD. But the Uncompressed 5.1 PCM - is it better or lesser than the HD?

Uncompress PCM as it's name said - It's uncompress and takes up lots of storage in the disc.

in theory it should be the same as DTS-HDMA and Dolby TrueHD. one is uncompress files, the other 2 are "zip" audio files stored inside the disc to save storage space.

Lossless audio is the way to go. Be it uncompressed PCM, DTS HD MA or Dolby TrueHD, the sound from either one of these formats is simply fantastic!

Uncompressed PCM = WAVE file.
DTS HD MA or Dolby TrueHD = Flac or Ogg (loseless).

Just a simple comparison. So in actual fact, it should be identical.

berani u ask " Uncompressed PCM, DTS MA , DTS HD, Dolby HD, PLII Movie, Neo ,THX, etc..etc.." here,sure lots of sifus will poison u kaw kaw kaw

If u are looking for reference Linear PCM BD, buy Kill Bill Vol I & II.

the poison is coming

Actually I am confuse too. In fact when I listen to DTS HD on BD & DTS on DVD it sound the same to me! BY right should be better!? Something wrong with my BD30 set-up???
Panny BD30 HDMI to Onkyo 875 HDMI in. Onkyo 7.1 set-up ( normal cheapo speaker ) Panny BD30 audio setting all set to bistream, secondary audio set to off.
Thank in advance for all advice! Have a very nice day!

FYI:



Note: The bitrate indicated are the most commonly found, while they can actually be higher.

Horny, your setting is correct, just make sure you're listening preset for DTS-HD MA as DTS-HD MA, and so on. The Panny BD30 can bitstream high-bitrate audio, so no problem there.

dude...u sure love diagram

wow,thanks aiman for the diagram

Old questionBDs play with PS3,the audio signal oledi decode in PS3 oledi,rite?

That's right. PS3 decode everything and send out PCM signal to AVR.

if u select pcm in the BD/DVD setting, then ps3 will go the decoding. id bitstream then yr amp will do the decoding

ok,so when the AVR received PCM signal,it wont show DTS-HD,TrueHD....and what type of "surround" we need to choose for best AQ,say both Yammy and Onky ?

it will show multichanal. and those DTS-HD,TrueHD.... 'red box' will not lightup

if select bitstream,our AVR will do the decoding and show TRue HD,DTS-HD in ur AVR,sure?

how if we select bitstream but using optical output from PS3 and going to a old amp without HDMI input?

PS3 don't do bitstream.

Yep ur amp will only show PCM. Doesn't matter whether u bitstream or send PCM, as long as ur source is good ur output will be good.

with bitstream, no HD sound loh