HD-DVD and Blu-Ray Audio question

sabotg
sabotg Posts: 126
edited January 2008 in Electronics
I currently have a non HDMI 1.3 capable receiver (Pioneer VSX-72TXV) and don't plan on upgrading anytime soon. I realize that with my Pioneer I can't take advantage of the new DTS-HD and Dolby TrueHD audio formats. My question is if I decide to buy a high definition player will I be stuck with PCM audio or will I still be able to listen to good ol DTS and DD at the current bit rate.
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  • sabotg
    sabotg Posts: 126
    edited January 2008
    sorry about the premature post. I got some good information on the HDMI 1.3 post below. If anyone as anything else to add that would be great.
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  • BIZILL
    BIZILL Posts: 5,432
    edited January 2008
    pcm basically = lossless. depends on your hd dvd or blu-ray player's capability. most all are capable of pcm. pcm sounds the same as true-hd when i use my ps3. pcm is uncompressed. think of dobly trueHD as a 'zipped file'. when decoded, it becomes pcm, uncompressed.

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  • cheddar
    cheddar Posts: 2,390
    edited January 2008
    sabotg wrote: »
    will I still be able to listen to good ol DTS and DD at the current bit rate.

    Just to clarify. Players can access the plain 'ol DD tracks still included as backup on many hi-def disks as well as the DTS 'core' of DTS-HD MA tracks via the same connections as DVD players (optical, analog outs, etc.). And because the DD and DTS tracks are encoded at the maximum bitrates of the old standards (instead of the middle rates found on most DVDs), they will often sound better than those available on regular DVDs.
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