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<blockquote data-quote="Alex Atkin UK" data-source="post: 147279" data-attributes="member: 1290"><p>From what I can gather digging a little deeper, Sony managed to cheat on PS3 by decoding the surround sound (from 3D Blurays) in software and then sending it out as PCM.</p><p>It is absolutely 100% a hack (in my opinion) as it results in inferior sound quality because a receivers DACs generally perform much more precise decoding than any software codec in my experience.</p><p></p><p>Where I went wrong as I mistakenly thought ALL lossless audio was blocked in 3D but it was just bitstreaming Dolby/DTS lossless. So it doesn't apply to games anyway as long as your receiver supports PCM surround.</p><p></p><p>Interestingly, I actually stopped using Netflix on PS3 because the sound quality was flat as it wouldn't bitstream Dolby Digital Plus either. When using the WDTV Live or PS4 which DOES support DD+, the surround mix just comes to life as my receiver does all the processing.</p><p></p><p>How they added 3D support is a mystery though, not sure if its just that the HDMI chip already was new enough or they did somehow manage to hack unofficial support to what is technically an older HDMI version. I'm guessing it just reads from the TV what formats IT supports and reports back what it is also capable of. As long as it presents the right format output it probably doesn't matter if the whole HDMI spec is supported.</p><p></p><p>HDMI 2.0 however is a different beast as again, it doubles the bandwidth which is a hardware change.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Alex Atkin UK, post: 147279, member: 1290"] From what I can gather digging a little deeper, Sony managed to cheat on PS3 by decoding the surround sound (from 3D Blurays) in software and then sending it out as PCM. It is absolutely 100% a hack (in my opinion) as it results in inferior sound quality because a receivers DACs generally perform much more precise decoding than any software codec in my experience. Where I went wrong as I mistakenly thought ALL lossless audio was blocked in 3D but it was just bitstreaming Dolby/DTS lossless. So it doesn't apply to games anyway as long as your receiver supports PCM surround. Interestingly, I actually stopped using Netflix on PS3 because the sound quality was flat as it wouldn't bitstream Dolby Digital Plus either. When using the WDTV Live or PS4 which DOES support DD+, the surround mix just comes to life as my receiver does all the processing. How they added 3D support is a mystery though, not sure if its just that the HDMI chip already was new enough or they did somehow manage to hack unofficial support to what is technically an older HDMI version. I'm guessing it just reads from the TV what formats IT supports and reports back what it is also capable of. As long as it presents the right format output it probably doesn't matter if the whole HDMI spec is supported. HDMI 2.0 however is a different beast as again, it doubles the bandwidth which is a hardware change. [/QUOTE]
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