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Originally Posted by Kymmy
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
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Yup. Optical doesn't have the bandwidth for Dolby True HD or DTS-HD Master Audio.
HD audio requires HDMI.
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Originally Posted by Kymmy
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
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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.