What Blu-ray Player Should I Choose?

[rgriffin25]

Something else to consider

I'm trying to figure out what would be the best Blu-ray player to choose out of the following models ONLY, because I can get them for pretty cheap. I plan to use this mainly for Blu-ray and upconverting to my Toshiba 50" (720p, but accepts 1080i) rear projection LCD. The video and audio will be running though HDMI to my Yamaha rx-v1800. Thanks.....models are as follows:

1) Samsung BD-P1400/X
2) Sharp BD-HP20U
3) Samsung BD-P1200
4) Sony PS3
5) Sony BDP-S300

The Panasonic BMP-BD30 is a fine player, and since you have the RX-V1800 why not get a machine that will output DTS-MA via bitstream?? The Panasonic is ever bit as fast as the PS3 when it comes to loading discs. The only thing that Profile 2.0 will allow is internet connectivity on discs that offer that feature. (Not a big deal in my opinion)

As far as movies that have a DTS-MA track there are quite a few. Check out every single release from 20th Century Fox. To name a few.. Live Free or Die Hard, Sunshine, Ice Age 2, Simpson's, X-men 3........

I also have a PS3 and it works fine too.

 

[Jack Hammer]

So am I understanding that the PS3 can't send 7.1 audio over HDMI until there is a firmware update?

Only for a DTS HD 7.1 signal, that is sent as a dts core 5.1 signal at a lower rate of 1.5mps (still very nice). Regular DTS, DD, DDTrue HD, etc gets up to a full 7.1 signal via hdmi.

AFAIK there are only a few movies, Pans Labrynth, House of 1,000 Corpses, and the Condemned that even have the DTS HD MA 7.1 track. I'm sure there are a few more out there and some yet to be released, but the point is: at this juncture there aren't too many movies using that audio format - yet.

Jack

 

[jostenmeat]

As far as movies that have a DTS-MA track there are quite a few. Check out every single release from 20th Century Fox. To name a few.. Live Free or Die Hard, Sunshine, Ice Age 2, Simpson's, X-men 3........

Here are the available DTS-MA Blu-ray discs, in all of their glorious variants.

DTS-MA 24bit 7.1
Hairspray

DTS-MA 7.1
Doctor Strange: The Sorcerer Supreme
Mr Woodcock
Oldboy Pan's Labyrinth
Rush Hour 3
Saw 4
Shoot Em Up

DTS-MA 24bit 6.1
X-men The Last Stand

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DTS-MA 24 bit 96khz
Chronos

DTS-MA 24bit 5.1
AVP - Alien Vs. Predator
Behind Enemy Lines
Broken Arrow
Bulletproof Monk
Chain Reaction
Fantastic Four
Flyboys
Ice Age - The Meltdown
Kingdom of Heaven
Kiss of the Dragon
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
Live Free or Die Hard
The Omen
Phone Booth
Planet of the Apes
Rescue Dawn
Rising Sun
Rocky
The Sentinel
Speed
The Simpsons Movie
The Transporter
Transporter 2
The Usual Suspects

DTS-MA
28 Days Later
28 Weeks Later
Breaker Morant
Cast Away
Courage Under Fire
The Day After Tomorrow
The Devil Wears Prada
Die Hard
Die Hard 2 - Die Harder
Die Hard Collection (Die Hard/ Die Hard 2 - Die Harder/ Die Hard wi...
Die Hard With a Vengeance
Edward Scissorhands
Entrapment
Eragon
Fantastic Four - Rise of the Silver Surfer
Flight of the Phoenix
Fly, The Fox
From Hell
Hart's War
The Hills Have Eyes 2: Unrated
Home of the Brave
Hoosiers
Man On Fire
The Marine
Me, Myself & Irene
Men of Honor
Mr & Mrs Smith
Mr. Brooks
Nature's Journey
Night at the Museum
Pathfinder
Prison Break - Season 1
Robocop
Suburban Girl
Sunshine
Wall Street
Windtalkers
The World's Fastest Indian

 

[jostenmeat]

Close Encounters of the Third Kind (30th Anniversary Ultimate Edition) has both True HD and DTS-MA.

The Lost City has both LPCM and DTS-MA.

Otherwise, I believe my previous list contains MA as the only lossless source. Someone please correct me if I am wrong. Cheers.

 

[FSUguy]

The Panasonic BMP-BD30 is a fine player, and since you have the RX-V1800 why not get a machine that will output DTS-MA via bitstream?? The Panasonic is ever bit as fast as the PS3 when it comes to loading discs. The only thing that Profile 2.0 will allow is internet connectivity on discs that offer that feature. (Not a big deal in my opinion)

As far as movies that have a DTS-MA track there are quite a few. Check out every single release from 20th Century Fox. To name a few.. Live Free or Die Hard, Sunshine, Ice Age 2, Simpson's, X-men 3........

I also have a PS3 and it works fine too.

So it is my understanding that the PS3 cannot currently decode DTS-HD MA or send this or Dolby Digital TrueHD via bitstream through HDMI to an AVR for decoding (ie my Yammy RX-V1800). Has anyone read or seen (with some proof) that when Sony releases the 2.0 update if it will be able to do all of these capabilities (especially the bit-streaming of the new formats with or without down-mixing 7.1 to 5.1)? Also, is the internal hardware even capable of such a feat?


Also, I'm sort of leaning toward the PS3 because it is also a media server and I really wanted that in my receiver, but it was a little out of my price range, but if there are no plans to be able to send the new audio formats via bitstream though HDMI, then I would be kind of stuck in a "catch 22" with features I want. haha

Thanks

 

[rgriffin25]

So it is my understanding that the PS3 cannot currently decode DTS-HD MA or send this or Dolby Digital TrueHD via bitstream through HDMI to an AVR for decoding (ie my Yammy RX-V1800).
Thanks

I have tried this myself, and the PS3 cannot pass DTS MA or TrueHD via bitstream for external decoding. It does decode TrueHD internally and outputs it as Multi Channel PCM.