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True High Definition Experience
July 29th, 2007 — James

If you are a HI-DEF enthusiast, you may have been looking for components that can add to your true HI-DEF experience. As a casual gamer, I use my console for media playback. Especially the media stored on my PC and the HI-DEF DVD’s. My home theater receiver does not support Dolby True HD or DTS HD Master Audio. There were no affordable receivers that supported these formats until recently. Now that Onkyo, Denon, Sony and others have affordable receivers that support these formats, I am looking forward to listening to the audio in the HD movies in those formats.

Xbox 360 does not support these formats. At least, the Xbox 360 HD DVD player down converts them to Dolby Digital and pass them to the receiver. So, if you buy a new receiver that supports these new formats, a PS3 at $500 is the best bet. PS3 supported Dolby True HD from day one (through HDMI PCM only). Microsoft doesn’t care. Sometimes they are not good even in ripping off features. If not for some fantastic games from their partners, Xbox 360 would have bitten the dust by now. Come this holiday season and PS3 will have a games lineup that rivals Xbox 360 games in quality. Definitely nothing will match the Halo 3 fan base. But I bet 2008 will be when PS3 will regain it’s top spot.

I don’t have a PS3 yet. I only have original Xbox and Xbox 360. I am slowly losing my loyalty to Xbox 360. If I buy a PS3, I may never go back to consoles from Microsoft. Ultimately I spent more money on Xbox 360 to get far less features and 2 two pieces of hot (literally) hardware. Most of my xbox 360 disks are scratched beyond readable condition. Imagine playing very hard to reach a check point in Gears Of War on insane difficulty and before the check point is saved, you get a message “disk unreadable” and going back to dash board. It happened to me many times.

HDMI, what is it? My Xbox 360 Premium (?) Edition asks. Downloads? I am full, I have only 20 GB. Go get a 120 GB hard drive for $175. I am sorry, I call myself Premium or Pro Edition.

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  • Doug says:
    January 13, 2008 at 8:03 am

    Thanks for sharing these Xbox 360 thoughts. I’m bookmarking this for future reference.
    First we have the Xbox 360 which of course is the next generation in the Xbox line. We also have the Sony PlayStation 3 which is Sony’s newest incarnation of the PlayStation which caused quite a ruckus upon its release, and then we have the Nintendo Wii which on its opening day completely sold out all available units
    I am currently on holiday so, for this reason, I’ve nothing better to do than surf the web for Xbox 360 games, lie around and update my blog. Well, more or less anyway. Doug

  • miguel says:
    January 3, 2008 at 6:43 am

    I found this article on the web . hope it helps.”It has come to our attention that the Playstation 3#Sony Playstation 3 PS3 doesn’t support the most important feature of HDMI version 1.3, the ability to bit stream to your receiver the new advanced audio codecs (Dolby Digital Plus, Dolby TrueHD & DTS-HD Master Audio). The PS3 only supports the “Deep Color” portion of the HDMI 1.3 spec. This is confirmed on page 21 the PS3’s own manual (see picture below), which can be found here. The main problem with this scenario is that only Dolby TrueHD can be decoded and sent as PCM via HDMI, while Blu-ray titles that have DTS-HD Master Audio (all Fox titles) cannot be decoded by the PS3 (it can only extract the legacy DTS “core” stream). We feel SONY has really miss led everyone into thinking that the PS3 would be able to bit stream the new lossless audio codecs once the new HDMI 1.3 receivers come out. We feel that everyone that bought a PS3 thinking it fully supported HDMI 1.3 got ripped off, and we will continue to feel this way unless SONY can make it up to everyone by adding the ability to decode the full DTS-HD MA lossless stream in the console (then sent as PCM to receiver)”.