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> But SPDIF is limiting you to DD at best which is 640kbit/s IIRC. Steaming services are often DD+ which won't go over SPDIF. Yeah, but an Apple TV or HTPC or
by Marsymars 4y ago
> But SPDIF is limiting you to DD at best which is 640kbit/s IIRC. Steaming services are often DD+ which won't go over SPDIF.
Yeah, but an Apple TV or HTPC or w/e can transcode your DD+ media to DD in realtime.
(And current Sonos products support HDMI.)
- lowbloodsugar 4y ago>Yeah, but an Apple TV or HTPC or w/e can transcode your DD+ media to DD in realtime. Sure. But that means tanking the quality. It doesn't magically keep the quality just because it started as DD+. >(And current Sonos products support HDMI.) Which is why I was making the point about going the SPDIF route.
- Marsymars 4y ago> Sure. But that means tanking the quality. It doesn't magically keep the quality just because it started as DD+. I'd say "marginally degrade" rather than tank. DD at 640 kbps is pretty close to transparent, and E-AC-3 to AC-3 transcoding uses hybrid recompression to avoid the full quality hit of lossless -> lossless.