Bluray Player decodes atmos or receiver?

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Grymlot

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Hey all,

I have an old cheap blu ray player and now that I'm building a dedicated home theater room I thought I should upgrade a bit to ensure I am compatible with the latest technologies. However, I am not finding alot of blu ray players that say they support Atmos in the $1-200 price range. I saw people talking about using the bitstream setting to let the receiver decode the atmos. Is this common or does the blu ray player typically handle the atmos? Am I losing anything here?

If anyone has suggestions for blu ray players, that is welcome also. My projector does not support dolby vision, is upscaled 4k (jmgo n1s ultra), but I am going for a 5.1.4 sound setup and looking to spend less than $200 since I will be using steaming services much more often than blu rays.
 
TLS Guy

TLS Guy

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Hey all,

I have an old cheap blu ray player and now that I'm building a dedicated home theater room I thought I should upgrade a bit to ensure I am compatible with the latest technologies. However, I am not finding alot of blu ray players that say they support Atmos in the $1-200 price range. I saw people talking about using the bitstream setting to let the receiver decode the atmos. Is this common or does the blu ray player typically handle the atmos? Am I losing anything here?

If anyone has suggestions for blu ray players, that is welcome also. My projector does not support dolby vision, is upscaled 4k (jmgo n1s ultra), but I am going for a 5.1.4 sound setup and looking to spend less than $200 since I will be using steaming services much more often than blu rays.
No, you need a BD player that can read an Atmos disc, and then the receiver can decode it, if it is an Atmos AVR or AVP.
 

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