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Old 5th January 2008, 02:15   #2383  |  Link
tjf
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Originally Posted by madshi View Post
You need HDMI 1.3 devices to transport TrueHD bitstream. But as far as I know every HDMI 1.3 device can also transport multichannel PCM sound. Now every audio format can be sent lossless via PCM. So if you have HDMI 1.3 devices you can also send FLAC without any loss to the receiver. So I don't see any advantage for TrueHD.
That is true for PC playback. But there could be other hardware players in the future that can play matroska files but not decode FLAC.
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