And of course:

@millemissen

Thats exactly what i want out of it, I wish it was abit more B&O like a beo6 or a new beo7 remote or somtehing like that, but this'll have to do until then unfortunately.

@Steve

You should always be on the list! If you'd ever like to come on the podcast as a guest, dm me! we'd love to have you on as a guest :D

Thanks David and Michael!

Yes, I would be very interested to join the podcast as a guest one day - please let me know how we can do this and I will be happy to help!

Kind regards, Steve.

Hi Steve,

I DM'ed you. Hope it finds you well?!

Michael

Thanks Michael!

I will be back in touch in a few minutes once I have had a coffee!

Kind regards, Steve.

Hi everyone,

Hope all is well? Are you guys ready for another podcast tomorrow/today? We'll be live again at our usual time 8pm/7pm/1pm AMS/UK/CST USA live on YouTube. 

As per usual we have some loosely gathered topic (lol) but we always value your input, so if any of you have any questions and or topic suggestions feel free to leave them here or bring them up in the live chat on YouTube. Also at some point we should have a (B&O) joke competition for the best joke in the live chat :p

Anyway, we'll see you all tomorrow, so get your beverage of choice and or snacks ready :p

Michael

Have the B&O devices slowly merged from NL devices into ChromeCast devices?

....and why?

That would be something to discuss.

By the way - I find that a bad joke 😠

MM

@millemissen

Thanks, we shall discuss it and I think I have an answer for you :D

Regarding the Sandy question about Dolby TrueHD decoding.

There is no need for decoding capacities for TrueHD (or DTS Master) in the B&O tv’s (or BeoSystems).

These sound formats are only (legally) available on bluray discs.

Just let the player do the job and feed the tv with the decoded stream = PCM.

However some players don’t decode to multi channel (5.1/7.1), but only to 2.0.

These are mostly the cheaper ones!!!

Would have been nice, if Sandy had mentioned the brand and model of his player!

By the way these two formats are compressed, but lossless (just like FLAC).

Netflix and co normally use the lossy compressed (but rather good) Dolby Digital Plus, which can be decoded in the tv’s based on the BeoSystem 4 audio engine.

The ‘Fury’ disc also contains an Atmos soundtrack (maybe not true for all disc versions).

Since the Atmos part is merely an add-on to the actual stream, the player would pick the core of the soundtrack, which is the HD track, then decode it to multi channel PCM (in case Sandy only to 2.0, obviously).

P.S. The Atmos version in streamed content is built on Dolby Digital Plus (DD+).

MM

Millemissen wrote:

Regarding the Sandy question about Dolby TrueHD decoding.

There is no need for decoding capacities for TrueHD (or DTS Master) in the B&O tv’s (or BeoSystems).

These sound formats are only (legally) available on bluray discs.

Just let the player do the job and feed the tv with the decoded stream = PCM.

However some players don’t decode to multi channel (5.1/7.1), but only to 2.0.

These are mostly the cheaper ones!!!

Would have been nice, if Sandy had mentioned the brand and model of his player!

 

By the way these two formats are compressed, but lossless (just like FLAC).

Netflix and co normally use the lossy compressed (but rather good) Dolby Digital Plus, which can be decoded in the tv’s based on the BeoSystem 4 audio engine.

 

The ‘Fury’ disc also contains an Atmos soundtrack (maybe not true for all disc versions).

Since the Atmos part is merely an add-on to the actual stream, the player would pick the core of the soundtrack, which is the HD track, then decode it to multi channel PCM (in case Sandy only to 2.0, obviously).

P.S. The Atmos version in streamed content is built on Dolby Digital Plus (DD+).

 

MM

 

Indeed - it was an odd situation.

I've used my Pioneer player for a few years here and there, without paying much attention to whether it was doing the decoding or not. Everything sounded great, so never felt the need to dig around in settings / sound info.

For whatever reason, the player seemed dead, so I bought a new Panasonic player (UB320), hooked it up in the same way through my matrix to the BV12-65 / BS4. The player can send bitstream or PCM - and settings can be specified for both Dolby and DTS audio.

For some reason though, and this never happened with my Pioneer 450 player, movies with their main track (English language) in multi channel DTS were fine (even DTS Master 7.1), but those with Dolby True HD were not.

Those Dolby True HD movies couldn't be bitstreamed - the BS4 would be silent and the sound info says PCM 0.0.  And if PCM'd to the BS4, would only play in PCM 2.0.......this may be a player issue, as it "seems" to be only outputting PCM 2.0. I can't get it to PCM multi channel - perhaps it can't down mix a Dolby True HD 7.1 to 5.1....manual / menu options suggests it should be able to.

And then my Pioneer woke up! And the above problem disappeared....i.e. irrespective of whether a movie was Dolby True HD or DTS Master 7.1, the Pioneer would output PCM 5.1......so all good again, and my Dolby True HD movies could be enjoyed in 5.1, not a PCM 2.0.

**while the Panasonic I bought is a relatively cheap (UHD) player now, the menu options do suggest it can output multi channel PCM.....it does so for DTS material, but refused to for Dolby True HD tracks (regular Dolby 5.1 it was happy to PCM out in multi channel).

*** So glad the Pioneer woke up again - it's audio reproduction is so damned good, the new Panasonic was ordinary by comparison.

**** Still love a good Blu-Ray, despite the above hi-jinks. The soundtracks are just so rich and immersive.Bought a bunch of discs for 7-8 GBP each, no regrets.