James asked:
I have the Logitech Z-5500 surround sound system. It comes with Dolby Digital, and DTS 96/24. But if I were to buy a Bluray player with DTS-HD, does my surround sound system have to support DTS-HD also for it to be able to output it?
Oh and the Bluray player would be connected via Optical cable to my surround sound system.
Tags: Bluray Player, Dts Sound, Hd
04 Sep 09 7:14 pm
Your system doesn’t support HD sound formats ( not via optical cable ). You need to have a receiver that supports audio via HDMI connection or you have a Blu-ray player with 7.1 multi-channel analog outputs and a non HDMI receiver with 7.1 multi-channel analog inputs.
06 Sep 09 8:13 am
No it doesn’t. If you receiver doesn’t support HD audio or if you send HD audio over anything buy HDMI it will degrade into straight Dolby or DTS. So you’ll still get surround sound.
BTW, you should make the player send audio bitstream to the receiver because optical can only send the decoded PCM as two-channel audio.