smst;141947 Wrote: > Just checked the specs for my receiver, which can handle AC3 and DTS -- > there's no mention of multichannel PCM support (and indeed it seems to > be that PCM data is forced to be stereo). That's just one receiver out > of many, so maybe 6-channel PCM is still viable.
I believe 6-channel PCM can't be transmitted over S/PDIF due to insufficient bandwidth. However it can be transmitted over HDMI, and in fact until HDMI 1.3 is released, that's how the 7.1 discrete formats will be transmitted to the receiver from an HD-DVD or Blu-ray player. See http://www.dolby.com/assets/pdf/tech_library/DPlus_TrueHD_whitepaper.pdf , chart on page 9. Unfortunately that leaves this sort of multichannel support for the Squeezebox high and dry. -- Mark Lanctot ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mark Lanctot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2071 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28112 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
