plus LFE (two channels), right and left front, right and left rear surround, and right and left surround (7.1 only). Part 1 Conclusion: If LPCM Won’t work, You’re Stuck with Dolby Digital or DTS In Part 2, we’ll examine the hardware and software components...

• -Understanding High-Definition Audio
• -Mastering HD PC Audio, Part 1

Xonar HDAV1.3 card in profile view; Figure 2 shows the unit (and its daughter card) installed in two PCI-e x1 motherboard slots. Figure 1 This is another situation where even the highest-fidelity PC audio adapters currently available offer two sets of audio...

• -What’s the real problem?
• -Where Are the PC HDMI interfaces?
• -High-Bandwidth Digital Copy Protection (HDCP)

and conventional DVD media, the unit handles Dolby Digital, Dolby Digital Plus and DTS, and can pipe them through HDMI in bitstream formats for decoding by an AV receiver, or in linear PCM (LPCM) formats. The DMP-BD10 does not, however, support either the lossless...

• -Philips BDP9000

By itself, this codec can handle up to 14 sound channels, but these high-definition DVD standards limit the total number of channels to 8). TrueHD output is only available through the HDMI interface, but most players can convert it to analog, DTS, or LPCM (which...