Originally Posted by Tassie Devil
Joe1c, I think your player was correctly set up for bitstream. Not many Bluray discs are being released with Hi Def PCM AFAIK.

There is a helpful discussion of all these confusing formats at http://www.highdefdigest.com/news/show/1064 and the Dolby & DTS HD formats are bitsstream, not PCM.

All VERY confusing.

John

Tassie, I think you are confusing things. You want EVERYTHING decoded to PCM with the HD621.

His player was problably setup wrong with bitstream as the default and he does want PCM and joel did the correct change by switching from bitstream to PCM.

You're correct that TrueHD and DTSMA are also "bitstream" but you DO NOT want to send bitstream to the HD621. You defeat it's purpose and if you do the handshake will see that HD621 can't take the HI-RES bitstreams and fall back to LO-RES bitstreams.

I've rented probably 25 BD's so far and EVERY ONE so far has had HI-RES.

PCM vs TrueHD vs DTS-MA doesn't matter they are all lossless "HI-RES" formats and should ALL be transmitted as PCM.

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