DTS 96/24 and new audio formats

[Emusica]

I have an older non-hdmi receiver that decodes DTS 96/24. My question is, when I hook up my soon to be Blu-Ray via analog inputs, how will this info be displayed/handled by the receiver? Will I get hi def sound? The blu-ray player I plan to get will decode the formats internally but I'm not sure how my receiver will interpret the signal, i.e. will is display as Dolby Digital, DTS, DTS 96/24, etc.... Thanks for the info.

Eric

 

[allargon]

#1) What receiver do you have?

#2) DTS has nothing to do with analog outputs. Your player will automatically decode the high res (or the core/companion legacy tracks) codecs and send them out via analog. Your receiver (unless it is higher-end capable of redigitizing and processing analog audio) will just take the analog audio and amplify it.

#3) What Blu-Ray player do you have or plan to buy. Very few out there currently decode all high res audio codecs (not even the $2k Denon and Marantz players) and send them out via multichannel analog outputs. Even fewer have proper things to be expected with a multichannel analog output player like bass management and distance.

 

[Seth=L]

* damn allargon you beat me!

I have an older non-hdmi receiver that decodes DTS 96/24. My question is, when I hook up my soon to be Blu-Ray via analog inputs, how will this info be displayed/handled by the receiver? Will I get hi def sound? The blu-ray player I plan to get will decode the formats internally but I'm not sure how my receiver will interpret the signal, i.e. will is display as Dolby Digital, DTS, DTS 96/24, etc.... Thanks for the info.

Eric

The receiver will interpret the signal as analog. This means all the digital processing occurs inside the Blu-ray player. So if you want all the DTS-HD and Dolby TrueHD decoding make sure that the Blu-ray player can decode it and output it via HDMI (not all Blu-ray players that have 5.1 analog outputs or even 7.1 analog outputs are ready to decode all formats out of the box.

Being that all the decoding takes place inside the Blu-ray player you will be using all it's post processing as well (such as Bass management).

The fact that the Receiver you have can decode DTS 96/24 is irrelevant when using anything other than a digital connection. And just as well, DTS 96/24 was only used for some select music related DVDs.

 

[Emusica]

#1) What receiver do you have?

#2) DTS has nothing to do with analog outputs. Your player will automatically decode the high res (or the core/companion legacy tracks) codecs and send them out via analog. Your receiver (unless it is higher-end capable of redigitizing and processing analog audio) will just take the analog audio and amplify it.

#3) What Blu-Ray player do you have or plan to buy. Very few out there currently decode all high res audio codecs (not even the $2k Denon and Marantz players) and send them out via multichannel analog outputs. Even fewer have proper things to be expected with a multichannel analog output player like bass management and distance.

I have the Sony STR DA-7ES, it has 7.1 analog inputs. The player I plan on getting is the soon to be released Panasonic DMP-BD55k which, accourding to panasonic, will internally decode and has 7.1 analog outputs. I was hoping to get all the hi def sound without having to get a new receiver.

The fact that the Receiver you have can decode DTS 96/24 is irrelevant when using anything other than a digital connection. And just as well, DTS 96/24 was only used for some select music related DVDs.

Damn, I was hoping that feature would be useful for something OTHER than my super collection of three DTS 96/24 cd's I have....