Didn't you know Sony stands for:

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@hexydes: Virtually every Blu-ray is already H.264 or VC-1 so any transcoding will only yield space savings by lowering the video bitrate and degrading image quality. Sure the extras take up some space, but many people actually like to use the extras.

@Daniel & r3loaded

2GB/s is the limit of the PCIe x8 link that the RAID controller uses. I suspect those speeds could have been achieved with fewer drives.

Medical care is not a human right either.

OS/2 ftw!!!

OS/2 ftw!!!

Great South Park reference!

The HDMI transmitter used in the PS3 cannot bitstream TrueHD or DTS HD. That doesn't matter though because as all discs are authored in advanced mode, the decoding must be done in the player. So the PS3 will decode the DTS HD stream to 8ch LPCM. This is no big deal though because there is no loss of fidelity doing it this way since TrueHD and DTS HD are lossless compression of LPCM to begin with. (Think Zipping of Raring a wav file.) This is how the PS3 currently supports TrueHD.

2000 = NT5
XP = NT5.1
Server 2k3 = NT5.2
Vista/Server 2k8 = NT6
Windows7 = NT6.1

Windows is too big for them to ditch the codebase and start from scratch. So you are stuck with OSes that evolved from NT from MS for a long time.

@Jet

Decoding TrueHD to LPCM is like decoding a Zip file. It is lossless compression. Discs authored in advanced mode require the decoding be done in the player so bitstream output will be absolutely useless going forward. Look at every HD-DVD. Every one of them is authored in advanced mode and required the decoding of the HD audio formats be done in the player. If the TrueHD decoded to PCM over HDMI sounds worse than a 640k DD stream, there is something wrong with your setup.