tsammyc Posted November 28, 2007 Posted November 28, 2007 So far, the best result I've gotten with my HTPC playing Blu Ray and HD-DVD using PowerDVD is Blu-Ray's uncompressed lossless PCM converted and output as DTS. For some reason DTS-HD and TrueHD don't sound that great with PowerDVD (over SPDIF) and my general preference is for DD+ output as DTS via SPDIF. I suppose its PowerDVDs algorithm for converting to DTS that seems to work better for DD+ than the compressed lossless formats. Unfortunately some HD-DVDs only have True-HD and no DD+. Generally, a Radeon equipped HTPC is a match (as far as my eyes can tell) to the PS3 or Toshiba HD-DVD player for video, but audio on some discs is still an issue.
weibchen Posted November 28, 2007 Posted November 28, 2007 ATI cards have bundle HDMI out with Sound processing.. so can send to your AVR.
Knight_Rider Posted November 29, 2007 Posted November 29, 2007 ATI cards have bundle HDMI out with Sound processing.. so can send to your AVR. Not real HDMI only SPDIF so you dun get the HD DD/DTS decoding.
Knight_Rider Posted November 29, 2007 Posted November 29, 2007 So far, the best result I've gotten with my HTPC playing Blu Ray and HD-DVD using PowerDVD is Blu-Ray's uncompressed lossless PCM converted and output as DTS. For some reason DTS-HD and TrueHD don't sound that great with PowerDVD (over SPDIF) and my general preference is for DD+ output as DTS via SPDIF. I suppose its PowerDVDs algorithm for converting to DTS that seems to work better for DD+ than the compressed lossless formats. Unfortunately some HD-DVDs only have True-HD and no DD+. Generally, a Radeon equipped HTPC is a match (as far as my eyes can tell) to the PS3 or Toshiba HD-DVD player for video, but audio on some discs is still an issue. The best would be a X-Fi Prelude with the HDMI x-Tension card. PDVD seems to downsample so not really stable now.
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