Sony has announced the next firmware upgrade for the PlayStation 3, due on the 15th April will finally add support for DTS-HD Master Audio on Blu-ray discs.
DTS-HD MA has long been favoured by Fox for its movie releases. With a bit-rate up to 24.5 Mbps, the system can deliver 7.1 channels of 96k/24-bit audio, equal to Studio masters.
This is particulary good news for those of us with an AV receiver that can accept PCM over HDMI but cannot decode new HD Surround sound formats itself - the PS3 will do the decoding and pass the PCM to the receiver.
Brian Towne, Senior Vice President and General Manager of the DTS Consumer Division, says: “We are extremely pleased that Sony Computer Entertainment is adding the full spectrum premium DTS-HD Master Audio codec into the PS3 so that more than 10 million owners of one of the best selling computer entertainment systems can have the best sounding, most efficient and flexible audio technology available as well.”
Teiji Yutaka, Senior Vice President for Sony Software Platform Development, adds: “PS3 was designed to enable delivery of new and improved technologies like DTS-HD Master Audio, so we are delighted to be able to offer this capability to PS3 users.”
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