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Originally Posted by dugpa
Yes, they're waiting and waiting and waiting and have been for ages now. And will be for ages more. They system has been out for 15 months now and PS3 users are still waiting. Honestly, I'm skeptical as to if it can actually be done. I don't know if I believe the hardware in the PS3 is capable of doing the DTS-MA decoding. Everyone seems to think firmware can magically do things but if the hardware doesn't support it, you're sunk. The "reports" I've seen of the PS3 having a firmware update coming to do DTS-MA usually are some poor sales schmuck at a trade show somewhere who gets asked about it and says, "Oh yeah, we're working on that." That hardly inspires confidence. But hey, I hope I'm wrong on this and all you PS3 owners get lossless DTS goodness. I'd almost consider a PS3 if they did that if it wasn't for it being a slot loader (Slot loaders are for cars and 5 year olds).
You're right, the difference between bitstream or conversion to PCM isn't that great. I was merely saying decoding/bitstreaming of DTS-MA to point out that there's no way at all to hear the actual lossless format with a PS3. I'd take either one personally, but the PS3 does neither.
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I guess I hold out hope it's possible. I'm not saying that firmware will magically allow it to play hd-dvd as well or something like that. I just think that with the hardware prowess of the ps3, there could be a way for it to decode and send the output via pcm...which is totally acceptable to me.
My thinking is that the dts-hdma decoding has been put off so that Sony can work on getting the ps3 up to 2.0 profile standards. It recently got it to 1.1 profile standards, but in order to get Universal and Paramount to switch over effortlessly (and probably to appeal to Warner's desire to have the HDM interactivity stuff), the ps3's next firmware is probably the 2.0 profile fix. To automatically make millions of bd players 2.0 capable would be a drawing point...or is a requirement for Warner.
Just a theory on my side.