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Posted by Joshua Zyber on 04/10/06 04:15
"Jeff Rife" <wevsr@nabs.net> wrote in message
news:MPG.1ea333f57ab44b9298a44b@news.nabs.net...
>> in combination with fully uncompressed HD audio
>
> Talk about useless marketing hype. First, there isn't a digital audio
> connection on *any* consumer equipment that can handle as little as
> 5 channels of uncompressed 44kHz/16-bit audio...the 3.5Mbps is more
> than
> SP/DIF can handle. To be able to handle 8 channels of uncompressed
> 96KHz/24-bit audio, you'd need over 18Mbps.
>
> So, although the decoder internal to the BR player can "handle" such
> audio, nothing else will ever be able to see it in digital form.
What's more, NONE of the first-generation Blu-Ray players will support
any of the new lossless audio formats. Without HDMI 1.3, they can't pass
them digitally, and none of the announced players offer internal
decoders. That's it, they just flat out don't support it.
Toshiba's HD-DVD players will at least support 2-channels of lossless
Dolby TrueHD. True, it's not ideal six channels or more, but it is two
more channels than Blu-Ray will offer in the first year.
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