Transcoding HD audio down to DTS Core is a great feature for people with older receivers. Transcoding TrueHD down to DTS Core on the XBox 360 sounds awesome. Not as good as TrueHD would, of course, but miles better than a standard DD track.
Very few people have HDMI 1.3 capable receivers. Most people that use receivers at all use an optical Toslink cable to hook up their audio. It would be nice to see Sony cater to the majority, here.
I will be upgrading my receiver within the next year to get LPCM output from the PS3. Until then, it would be nice to get some higher quality audio out of the Blu-Ray discs out there that have TrueHD and DD tracks, but no DTS track. There are a LOT of people in my current situation that would benefit from such a feature. A feature that the XBox 360 carries without so much as a hiccup.
“An engineer explained to us that hundreds of ear impressions were gathered in the name of research, and while each one obviously boasted its own unique shape and size, one single characteristic remained uniform across the board: the entrance into the ear canal is not a perfect circle, it's an oval.”
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Transcoding HD audio down to DTS Core is a great feature for people with older receivers. Transcoding TrueHD down to DTS Core on the XBox 360 sounds awesome. Not as good as TrueHD would, of course, but miles better than a standard DD track.
Very few people have HDMI 1.3 capable receivers. Most people that use receivers at all use an optical Toslink cable to hook up their audio. It would be nice to see Sony cater to the majority, here.
I will be upgrading my receiver within the next year to get LPCM output from the PS3. Until then, it would be nice to get some higher quality audio out of the Blu-Ray discs out there that have TrueHD and DD tracks, but no DTS track. There are a LOT of people in my current situation that would benefit from such a feature. A feature that the XBox 360 carries without so much as a hiccup.