>and a PCM stereo track.<
When you say PCM stereo tack are you referring to standard Red book stereo, 16bit, 44.1 KHz?
PCM can be any one of a number of sampling rates and bit rates. When looking at media other than CD, 44.1kHz is very rare and 48kHz or 96kHz is more common. Blu-ray frequenly uses 24bit as well.
>It depends on how the player is configured. If the player supports on-board decoding (as pretty much all current players do), you can set the player up to always output LPCM. You can also set the player to output a bitstream, though<
Let see if I understand this, when Outlaw release it next processor, I assume it will have DAC’s that will be able to decode multiple formats over the HDMI input . Does this mean you would use a bitstream as an output from the BD?
Bob
The Model 978 and Model 998
will have digital signal processing (DSP) chips that can decode the new lossless codecs. You might still want to let the player decode the audio, though - some players can both decode lossless audio and mix in secondary audio, for example, which only works when decoding internally. The BDP-93 can do this, and it can be useful with some discs.
The DACs will not matter in this regard, as they are located after all the audio processing (decoding, bass management, room correction, etc.) is done.
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