NEW Dolby Digital and DTS formats

[Audioholics]

I can't even tell you how nice that is to hear - that we won't need to upgrade our receivers to experience discrete 7.1 (at least those current receivers with SACD type inputs). I'm wondering what the difference between 7.1 analog and "lossless pure digital" will be.

Again, just to reiterate what others have said, they are looking into the future with that statement. From what we understand to date, HDMI 1.3 (not yet released) and above will support the Dolby TrueHD (and supposedly DTS-based) lossless formats. HDMI 1.0/1.1/1.2 and 1.2a will not.

 

[GlocksRock]

Glocksrock,

hdmi 1.1 will support the new formats only as pcm. If the player will decode and convert to pcm, then the format can be sent over hdmi 1.1, but you can't send the lossless bitstream over hdmi 1.1, plus your current receiver won't be able to decode it anyway.

Stan

Thank you, this is the info I was looking for.

 

[Sinsemilla]

All this talk over the new formats has left me with one question. What is the actual data rate for these lossless audio formats?

 

[MACCA350]

Dolby TrueHD: Up to 18 Mbps bit rate
DTS-HD: they dont say

cheers