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Originally Posted by nwg
If HD DVD has no AC3 core, then why would the HD DVD to Blu Ray I did come out as AC3 5.1? It also comes out as AC3 5.1 when I play the EVO files from the pc through the same amp. I am using the original DD+ audio from the HD DVD's and muxed with TsMuxer to make a BD.
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Well, I gather that HD DVD DD+ is designed to be fairly easily downconverted to AC3 on-the-fly so that a compatible player can produce a good AC3 version for output via optical etc. I suppose you could argue that that's similar to having a legacy core, but I would say that it's not, since it still takes a bit of work and you need a new decoder that know what to do.
What hardware and software players are you using? It might be useful to work out which ones either downconvert HD DVD DD+ to AC3 or pass them through a receiver. The hardware players that do may have a chipset in common etc.