Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD bitstreaming

Thanks for the feedback. My receiver is a Yamaha RX-V373 and it does indeed support Dolby TrueHD;

HD Audio format decoding: Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD Master Audio; Dolby Digital Plus and DTS-HD High Resolution Audio

To Dayton; so it does appear multi channel on the receiver display but the format is PCM. Seems strange. Again, with the HDMI passthru, and the TV function it is still PCM. But if I hook my Sat receiver in directly the A/V receiver displays Dolby Digital.

One question, why have hdmi from receiver to tv AND an optical to tv as well? Hdmi should carry the audio, so not sure why you would use optical to tv as well.

If your watching blu ray movies I would stick to uncompressed. Blu ray movies almost always have a lossless track (Dolby TrueHD or DTS-HD master audio) which is a clear step up from normal Dolby digital or DTS. Uncompressed should pass the lossless tracks,
where Dolby digital or DTS will not. Don't worry about the Dolby or DTS light on your receiver. Only reason that they may sounds better is IF you are usb a surround processing mode that only works on a bitstream signal.

[quote user="DPC"] I noticed the Blu-Ray player does not play Dolby TrueHD & DTS-HD Master Audio. [/quote]

Actually what happens is the xb1 is decoding the Dolby TrueHD or DTS-HD and passing it out to your AV receiver as uncompressed PCM. There is no difeerence in sound between uncompressed PCM and the HD audio formats. It's just a matter of which component is
doing the decoding, and in this case it's the xb1.

I agree that the xb1 should be able to pass the HD audio formats to our AV receivers/processors and let the receiver do the decoding. I hope they fix this soon.

Thank you for posting this fix!

I have a Sony sound bar and sub, so I need the sub channel. My sound bar supports HD codecs and bitstreaming, so it would be optimal if the XB1 would bitstream DTS-HD MA and Dolby TrueHD, but for now, 7.1 uncompressed LPCM works fine. I'm sure 5.1 would
be sufficient, but for those movies that have 7.1, I'd rather have my sound bar do the downmixing. It's probably better for the surround effect if it's downmixed once instead of twice.

I have a Denon AVR-1911 and the 7.1 uncompressed sound is amazing from my point of view. a DTS HD-master audio or a Dolby Truehd would be nice for games IMO. they need to update