As I stated, DTS owns both technologies and it is under their conditions as to what WD has to adhere too. And downmixing is required for optical and stereo ouputs. Under DTS licensing, it does not permit the bypass of their licensing to allow passthrough DTS-HD. DTS-HD is an extension of DTS, not separate from it. The problem your having is assuming that one has nothing to do with the other, but it is the DTS licensing that allows the DTS core to be extracted from DTS-HD and allow DTS-HD to be downmixed. So, if you bypass one then it will affect the licensing of the other. If no license is required for passthrough there is no way it should effect another license to add it.ĭTS owns the licensing of both DTS & DTS-HD. Just passthrough DTS-HD and decode the DTS core (like they are doing now). Meaning if WD implemented DTS-HD pass-through, they would lose their DTS licensing. So the reason that WD can’t implement DTS-HD pass-through, even through it doesn’t require a license to do so, is because if they did it would affect the DTS license. The reason that the SMP/HUB can’t pass-through DTS-HD is because they are under the DTS license, but not not DTS-HD license. Although it can and does play local files, it’s main function is as a Online content streamer. Also the reason for this is because the Play is not meant to be a local file steamer. The reason that the Play can pass-through DTS-HD (also DTS & TrueHD) is because it doesn’t have a DTS license to compromise. The only way to have both (DTS & DTS-HD) is to be licensed for both, and without the DTS licensing the SMP/HUB could not downmix which would affect people who don’t have a AVR or other device that could decode those audio types. However, there appears to be misconception about DTS-HD pass-through on the SMP/HUB.
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