Thread: Surround Sound with HDMI
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Old 23-10-2008, 19:35   #12
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Re: Surround Sound with HDMI
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Originally Posted by Matt D View Post
Yup. Optical doesn't have the bandwidth for Dolby True HD or DTS-HD Master Audio.

HD audio requires HDMI.




Not quite...

Although the PS3 cannot output Dolby True HD or DTS-HD Master Audio over HDMI as is, for decoding by an external receiver, it can decode them itself & output the audio over HDMI as uncompressed Linear PCM.

So you can get true multi-channel HD audio from the PS3... but you need an amp that can take it as uncompressed LPCM, rather than one that just takes the Dolby/DTS bitstream & decodes it itself.

No idea though why it can't output them as is... it has HDMI 1.3 after all.
Thanks Matt

What your talking about work with this amp?

http://www.play.com/Electronics/Elec...archtype=genre
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