Re: digital audio specs?

Kalman Rubinson wrote:

On Mon, 23 Apr 2007 15:26:20 -0500, willbill <trek@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:


so at this point i haven't a clue as to what it means
when PCM shows on the AVR's front panel


It means that you have a PCM source. Neither DD nor
DTS are PCM.


for the moment, i'm taking it to mean
that audio stream doesn't have any real
surround encoding

fwiw, with a digital audio cable straight
from my ATSC STB TV tuner, i sometimes see
only DD on the front panel of my AVR

which suggests that OTA ATSC TV isn't
restricted to only some variant of Pro Logic

sounds slightly better too

fwiw#2, my AVR's remote has a surround button
and a stereo button and it's been interesting
to hear the differences when playing a standard
stereo CD

but with the sound itself i'm talking minor
differences; i mean, all of this TV/movie
audio is compressed

with DVD the DD5.1 tends to be slightly better
than the DD2.0 (fidelity wise) but the surround
is noticeably better; and with DTS5.1 there's
a clear edge over the DD5.1 on both fidelity
as well as the surround

bill
.

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