Raistline said:
This really depends on a lot of things. Most of the time a games sound effects will be generated randomly and those sounds are almost always lossless. The in game music and voice acting that comes from the Blu-Ray disc will usually be lossless as well, but not always. Downloaded games may or may not have the lossless audio. If there is a size difference between the downloaded version and the size on disc than the downloaded version will likely be limited to Dolby 5.1. However, if the game is bit-for-bit the same size downloaded and on disc, then the downloaded one will have lossless audio. If the game you are playing is a small indie game you will almost never have lossless audio since most indie games don't have the capital for high end audio mastering. So the answer is all of the following, Yes, No, Sometimes, and Maybe. |
That DOES help. I don't plan on upgrading both my TV and a/v receiver soon. So I'm trying to pre-configure my set up as I "make do" with what I have. My receiver will encode and pass thru lossess audio, but it will NOT pass thru 3D signals. Running both the PS3 and PS4 Pro to my receiver and running my receiver to my television will garrantee the best audio quality. But my biggest concern is the PS4 Pro downsampling when the video signal goes from the PS4 Pro to the a/v receiver. Will that downsampling be lost because of an older a/v receiver? More than likely, this will be within the HDMI bandwith (1.4 version I think) so I should be able to take advantage of the downsampling. If not, I'll have to run the PS4 Pro straight to the televsion and run my audio via ARC to the a/v receiver. But then, I'll lose lossless audio since ARC doesn't support it. Then there's the issue of "which console will server as my Blu-Ray player." I'll just assume "worse" case scenario for now. Thanks.
