Blu-ray and HD-dvd 96 kHz sound ?

I have a samsung Br-p1400 blu-ray player and a A1 HD-dvd player and a onkyo 604 reciver and both players are using HDMI the Reciver has hdmi 1.1 . and both player are set to PCM out through the HDMI and when I play then they bother play in MCPCM but the Blu-ray player allway plays in 48k HZ sound and the A1 is allways in 96 kHz no matter what I play in HD-DVD. I think it sounds a litter better then they Br-p1400 blueray player. I have tryed to get the Br-p1400 to out out in 96 kHz but it just won't in any way I set the options it's allway's 48k HZ. Im not down converting it in any way inside the Br-p1400 player because it has a option to do that and I have it turned off so it sould out put it in 96 kHz but it's allway's 48k. Does any one know why this is ?

[Post edited by JunkerDC on Jan 28, 2008]

Because its Blu-Ray

Another thing to add to the list of HD-DVD that works perfectly and is flawed on Blu-Ray.

In all seriousness, I thought the 96khz was only if the disc was recorded that way. If the disc doesn't have the audio in 96 the machine can't extract it.

That's what I thougt too but it does not matter on my A1 it's all in 96 kHz mcpcm Dolby Digital Plus, Dolby True HD and even DTS core.

[Post edited by JunkerDC on Jan 28, 2008]

For some reason, all first generation HD DVD players upsample all internally decoded audio to 24-bit/96kHz. There's no advantage in doing so IMO.

HD DVD player settings have always been 96Khz. I believe you would have to go to Panasonic 30 model to get better audio reproduction. A decoder that is on-board in a BR machine, has the abilty to decode and transefer 96Khz. Unfortunatly you are going to see that trend in BR, as the manufactures try to slim the price down. Their cost is wrapped up in the expensive drives...

I guess HD DVD will never have to worry about that.

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HD DVD player settings have always been 96Khz.

First gen players just upsampled to 96kHz regardless of source when doing internal decoding. That's not considered a "good" thing. Very few titles actually have 96kHz audio. All Blu-ray players I know of can output 96kHz when the source is 96kHz, including the PS3.

Skyhawk, you're saying 48KHZ sound upsampled to 96 KHZ sounds worse than if it was just 48 KHZ?

That's like saying there's no advantage in upconverting DVD's to 1080i or 1080P.

[Post edited by Falcon01 on Jan 28, 2008]

It's like saying my Denon's AL24 Processing Plus which smoothes out the curve has no effect. That's rubbish! For a while I was giving Skyhawks posts some benefit of the doubt, but I'm starting to see things in a different light. Even interpolating those steps between each sample along the curve would improve the output, anybody can see, or rather hear that.

Upsampling or not, it still plays all aources at 96khz. Most title must get produced at 96khz.

Here's an informative artice for you guys regarding Dolby TrueHD and DTS HD.

How to actually use Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD

http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/01/22/how-to-actually-use-dolby-truehd-and-dts-hd/

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[Post edited by Falcon01 on Jan 28, 2008]