PS4 Lossless Audio

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CityOfNoobs said:

LivingMetal said:

Thanks.  But it still doesn't answer my question in regards to the games.  Blu-Ray playback, the PS4 supports lossless audio formats.  But are the games encoded with losses audio?  I could make that assumption, but I want to be sure.  Thanks again.

This is a very different question. Of course individual Games will be encoded at different bitrates and with different formats , but the PS4 can output all softwares Audio lossless through HDMI Linear PCM, that is the PS4 does not need to "Decode" the track and can just pass along whatever is there, be it a stereo , Dolby, or LCPM track.  This is in contrast to say using an optical cable, which cannot pass over lossless audio regardless of the sources bitrate or encoding format.  

If your system is HDMI 1.4 there is a 99% chance your system supports LCPM 5.1 or even 7.1 , so regardless of the individual games audio you could just leave it on that and you will get the best audio possible from each piece of software. There really is not anyway to tell from a games box or specs page what type of Audio encoding it has sadly, the most you will get is "5.1" which tells you nothing. 

Yes.  It is a 7.1 system and it supports Dolby True HD and DTS-HD Master Audio.  But this Receiver was made in 2008.  I was afraid that any graphical enhancements by a PS4 Pro to a 1080p television would be lost going through a receiver this old.  I might have to buy a new one if that's the case.