PCM 48Khz Question

[walter duque]

I am not up to date on Blue-Ray Player specs. Since I don't see DTS on any BlueRay movies it must be that PCM 48Khz is the better sound than DD. My question is that I have a Rotel 1066 Processor and will that Processor reproduce this audio format or do I have to update my processor.

 

[jliedeka]

My guess is you would need a processor with HDMI to benefit from multichannel PCM. I think your coax (or TOSLink) is limited to Dolby Digital. I'm not aware of any discs that use basic DTS or DTS-ES. It's usually Dolby Digital or one of the higher resolution codecs.

Jim

 

[racquetman]

If your blu-ray player has analog outputs, you can get any of the formats via that route. The player will need to do the decoding though.

 

[edmcanuck]

Since I don't see DTS on any BlueRay movies it must be that PCM 48Khz is the better sound than DD.

To paraphrase: I don't see any apples so it must be that grapes are better than plums.

I think you would do well to search the forum and find out about the new formats and how to listen to them through older equipment. You have some basics to cover before the advanced class.

 

[walter duque]

To paraphrase: I don't see any apples so it must be that grapes are better than plums.

I think you would do well to search the forum and find out about the new formats and how to listen to them through older equipment. You have some basics to cover before the advanced class.

Thanks for your help.

 

[racquetman]

white papers

A good place to learn is:

http://www.dts.com/ (down near the bottom, read DTS-HD white paper)

and go here:

http://www.dolby.com/technicallibrary.aspx?id=306&taxid=204 (and read through Dolby's technical library)

That should get you caught up real quick without having to search through a bunch of forum posts.

 

[walter duque]

A good place to learn is:

http://www.dts.com/ (down near the bottom, read DTS-HD white paper)

and go here:

http://www.dolby.com/technicallibrary.aspx?id=306&taxid=204 (and read through Dolby's technical library)

That should get you caught up real quick without having to search through a bunch of forum posts.

Thanks for this very usefull link.