Axiom Home Page Forums General Discussion Home Theater Toshiba A30 and A35 HD player...differences?

You are right (I just checked). Not having those soundtracks decoded by my A30 will not make me loose any sleep.

The bass management on you receiver should work with 5.1/7.1 multichannel PCM. It is the analog inputs it cannot process. At least, the Onkyo 805 does it without any problems (inclusing using Pro Logic and any other DSPs on the high-def audio if required).

Me, either, about the losing sleep. After all, it's not Regina. (Sorry, Sean)

Doh!

There are a few HD DVD's with DTS Master audio, Terminator 2 is one (French import) it has the DTS Master audio, there are a few here ebay but they aren't cheap.

This toshiba site shows that the A-30 pass high bit rate audio so maybe it will be software upgrade.

<http://www.tacp.toshiba.com/hddvd/>

Yes, they pass it as decoded PCM, not as a bitstream to be decoded by the receiver.

I dont think it really matters in the whole scheme of things. Think about it-

your hd-dvd player decodes then sends to receiver then to speakers.

or

your hd-dvd player sends to receiver, recevier decodes, then sent to speakers.

what is the advantage of one over the other? I say absolutely none. So things get decoded at the player and sent 3 feet away via hdmi... I would bet money there is no audible difference in sound quality

I think if the player decodes it...it baypasses the bass managment on the reciever...am I wrong?

You are correct that it doesn't matter where the decoding happens in a digital chain. I think the issue people are talking about is how the DTS isn't being decoded appropriately by players, so it would need to be passed onto the receiver or processor in bitstream in order to be in its state of highest fidelity. In an ideal world, all of this would have been worked out before the formats launched, but I guess this is just proof we're awake.