[geeks] DTS or AC3 test video?

Atomist rescue at port11.net
Tue Feb 21 15:53:38 CST 2006


Joshua Boyd wrote:

>On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 04:38:30PM -0500, Atomist wrote:
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>>Joshua Boyd wrote:
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>>>SACDs don't work with digital outputs anyway[0]
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>>There are SACD players that output using HDMI. HDMI has enough bandwidth 
>>to handle this (5Gps).
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>They output the audio using HDMI?  If so, what TV supports taking that
>sort of bit stream?  Also, while the HDMI 1.1 standard supports
>24bit/192khz PCM audio over HDMI, it doesn't actually support DSD over
>HDMI yet (so if someone is doing it, it isn't a standard extension).  I
>suppose they could convert the DSD to PCM before transmission though,
>assuming they could get a license to do so from the SACD owners (or were
>not intending to sell any units in places like the US).
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Denon is supposed to support SACD over HDMI. They also do SACD over 
Denon Link.



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