Hi vrybody,

I've a DVD player which doesn't support dts. Is it possible to play CD's in this which need dts supported DVD players.? Or is that outta the question..?

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By CDs do you mean a standard audio CD?

I think he means DTS CDs. They contain multichannel music in DTS format. The compressed data is inside a normal 16bit 44.1KHz CD Audio stream.

If the DVD player doesn't support DTS it won't play it correctly at all. You might get it to work if you have an external DTS decoder (many hometheater receivers do include one) and the DVD player has a digital output (S/PDIF). Then you just play tracks as if they were normal CD tracks.

Never come across such a CD, do you have a link to an example?
Thank you.

Several Pink Floyd albums were released as DTS CDs. I have Wish You Were Here.

Why the "mp3" is in the topic subject? DTS audio must be bit perfect. It is not possible to compress it with a lossy encoder.

I have successfully played DTS audio CDs with my old standalone CD player using its optical output and the decoder inside my HT receiver. These DTS audio disks are apparently standard Red Book disks, but they have the DTS data coded inside the 44.1 kHz audio stream.

For some reason the same does not work with my newer standalone DVD player, although my receiver has no problems with decoding DTS audio from standard DVD video discs. Perhaps it resamples the PCM 44.1 kHz output to 48 kHz before passing it to SPDIF.