• entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org
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    9 months ago

    The Shield is also one of the only Android TV devices that passes on HD audio codecs, so if you stream any Blu-ray rips with DTS-HD Master Audio or Dolby TrueHD and you want passthrough to work correctly, you probably want a Shield.

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      9 months ago

      DTS-HD Master Audio or Dolby TrueHD and you want passthrough

      Can you elaborate on this please - what’s passthrough and dts?

      I have a shield - can I use it as a server, or is it just a client?

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        9 months ago

        A shield is just a client, can’t be used as a server AFAIK.

        DTS is just a different set of audio formats/standards, originally popularized in theaters by the movie Jurassic Park.

        DTS-HD Master Audio is their lossless audio format, meaning it decompresses out to being the exact same audio bit-for-bit as the mixer heard when they finalized the audio for the movie.

        Likewise, Dolby TrueHD is also a lossless digital audio format, so it also decompresses to the exact same audio the mixer heard when mixing/mastering the movie.