thread: PS3 5.1 surround sound problem
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Old 08-01-2009, 11:47 AM   #13
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Re: PS3 5.1 surround sound problem
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Originally Posted by Uridium View Post
Optical (Toslink or digital Co-Ax) does not have enough bandwidth to carry DTS-MA or Dolby TrueHD formats.

The PS3 is outputting these over HDMI to your TV but the TV isn't capable of passing these through to your surround system.

You can check what format the PS3 is outputting by pressing select during BR playback and looking at the audio codec dispalyed at the top of the screen.

Afraid your not going to be able to get HD audio formats so you will need to choose the standard DTS/DD soundtracks.
DTS/DD is fine as that's all the dvd will play. So if I restrict it to DTS then the tv should pass that through.

The display said 5.1ch when I checked. It's wierd why it reverts to pro Logic and only for Blue ray not DVD playback and game playback which both do 5.1.
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