Bearcat M. Şándor wrote:
If the bluray spec only supports up to 7.1, why are we seeing receivers
with 11.2 outputs? Are those just matrixed channels with some reverb
thrown in? I'll be thinking about this for my ambisonics setup.
When I said
"Having had a look at the DTS spec (ETSI TS 102 114 v1.4.1) recently,
though there are many possible channel layouts in there, it may be that
blu-ray players only do 7.1 and in that case the .1 really is only for
LFE - it is not stored/decoded as a full range channel. I don't know
about TrueHD - the spec seems to be secret."
I was really meaning what every player/decoder should support as a
minimum - to be blu-ray compatible.
I think if the player passes on the whole DTS/Dolby stream to a more
advanced decoder then it's quite possible that if present 11.2 real
channels could be on the disk.
Looking at wikipedia again I see it doesn't even say 7.1 is max for
TrueHD and DTS-MA, it says 8ch so I guess I was wrong in saying 7.1 was
max and what I wrote about LFE is wrong as long the channels are all
flagged a full range. OP may still want to use PCM of course as there is
the issue of encoders.
I also realise I misread/skimmed the first line in this thread and took
"dearth of 8 channel players" to mean there are plenty of 8ch players -
strange
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