Texas Instruments Brings First Approved Dolby TrueHD and Dolby Digital Plus Decoders

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Texas Instruments Incorporated today announced that its Aureus generation of audio digital signal processors (DSPs) is the first audio/video receiver (AVR) implementation approved for both Dolby TrueHD and Dolby Digital Plus. With AVRs based on TI’s award-winning Aureus DA7xx DSPs, manufacturers will now be able to provide consumers high definition Dolby surround sound from next-generation HD DVD and Blu-Ray Disc players, recorders and home theater in a box (HTIB) systems, which enable enhanced audio features such as the decoding of up to 8 discrete channels of lossless 192 kHz audio delivered synchronously over High-Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI).

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[Seth=L]

I guess this is one of the reasons why the Onkyo TX-SR805 is THX Ultra II cert.

 

[VinnyC]

So... do the Onkyo's that support TrueHD have something different? It isn't a different type of TrueHD I hope. lol, I wouldn't be suprised.

"you only have TrueHD? Not TrueHDzx9alphamax?"

 

[MACCA350]

So what's the difference between this and what the current HD DVD and Blu-ray players use?

cheers

 

[Buckle-meister]

A single Aureus DSP is capable of full performance decoding (8-channel, 192kHz/24-bit HD audio) as well as additional post-processing at the native sample rate without downsampling...The audio bitstream can then be decoded and post-processed in real-time to suit a user's listening setup and preferences.

You know, if you just step back for a moment and attempt to imagine just how much information is being manipulated in real-time, it truly is awe-inspiring.