HD Audio Formats - Can you hear a difference?
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I'm using a PS/3 at present to play BluRay disks (I've got a combo Bluray, HD-DVD for my HTPC comming) but got asked the other day if the HD audio formats sound any better (I use the PS/3 to decode to 5.1 PCM and push it out over HDMI to my Yami V2700).
Now I've not done any "double blind" type test and while normal DD / DTS and the new HD formats all sounds good to me (and leave me imersed in the movie) I thought I'd ask.... 1) can you hear a difference and if so 2) given the law of diminishing returns, how much better is it
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I think they do. Only you can answer if they sound better to you.
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I asked a similar question a while back and was told that "HD-Audio" vs "Standard-Audio" was about as big of a jump in the movie experience as going DVD to HD for picture. I'm loving the HD picture right now, and my HD-DVD "downgrades" the HD audio to 1.5Mbps DTS for me, and movies like Transformers even sound better that way than they do on the regular DVD (I did a basic sound and picture comparison thanks to NetFlix).
Part of me wishes that I would have forked out the $600 for the top end HD-DVD player to get analog audio outs for use with my really nice, but 3 year old (non-HDMI) receiver, but then again, for $98, I'm pretty happy with just the HD picture right now. Maybe when that HD-DVD/Blu-Ray PC drive gets a little cheaper I'll jump on the HTPC bandwagon. I've been wanting to do that for years anyway.
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1) Yes, definitely 2) A lot and it will get better as 24-bits audio is slowly entering the movie theaters.
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What are some hd-dvd's that have dolby true hd sound?
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300, Happy Feet, Troy, the new Kubrick releases (in 24 bits), Shrek 3, The Matrix trilogy. Those are the ones I own and first listened in regular audio because I did not have a HDMI receiver and later re-watched them in Dolby Truehd. You can see on this site, they have the full specs of movies: http://www.highdefdigest.com/
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Imo there is a huge difference, and it is very easy to AB through the HD DVD menu.
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cool I have 300 in the mail from netflix now
Last edited by terzaghi; 12/01/07 01:04 AM.
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If you have a new receiver and it can decode the audio you would send it bitstream, if you use your A2 to decode then you would send it to your receiver via PCM.
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Maybe when that HD-DVD/Blu-Ray PC drive gets a little cheaper I'll jump on the HTPC bandwagon. I've been wanting to do that for years anyway.
Is this cheap enough? I will guess they are cheaper down there.
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