View Single Post
Old 23-10-2008, 20:13   #11
Tezcatlipoca
Inactive
 
Tezcatlipoca's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: Cambridge
Posts: 16,760
Tezcatlipoca has a pair of shiny starsTezcatlipoca has a pair of shiny starsTezcatlipoca has a pair of shiny starsTezcatlipoca has a pair of shiny starsTezcatlipoca has a pair of shiny stars
Tezcatlipoca has a pair of shiny starsTezcatlipoca has a pair of shiny starsTezcatlipoca has a pair of shiny starsTezcatlipoca has a pair of shiny starsTezcatlipoca has a pair of shiny starsTezcatlipoca has a pair of shiny stars
Re: Surround Sound with HDMI

Quote:
Originally Posted by Kymmy View Post
OK, the main opinion is that using an optical cable will only give you DD5.1 or DTS and not true HD sound, for that you'll need a HD amp that uses the HDMI input for the sound

Yup. Optical doesn't have the bandwidth for Dolby True HD or DTS-HD Master Audio.

HD audio requires HDMI.


Quote:
Originally Posted by Kymmy View Post
Nope, the PS3 does not produce HDMI1.3 (or DolbyHD or DTS-HD) sound. So the optical is gonna be the best you can get from the PS3
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.
Tezcatlipoca is offline   Reply With Quote