For years we were told - going right back to the old WDTV Live - that the units couldn’t pass through DTS-MA as DTS would only licence Blu-ray Disc Players and AV amps.
Then the Play passed DTS-MA (despite not being a player or amp) and we were told that’s because it couldn’t decode DTS, and DTS-MA passthrough was possible, but DTS wouldn’t licence vanilla DTS to a player which allowed this. You could only have one or the other, so the WDTV Live SMP had internal DTS decoding but no DTS-MA passthrough, whilst the reverse was true for the Play.
Now the WDTV Live SMP allows both internal DTS decoding and DTS-MA passthrough.
Unless I’ve missed it we’ve had no explanation as to how this has happened. In one way it doesn’t matter; we now have what we want.
But after literally years of people asking for this, suggesting it, trying to come up with fixes, false dawns, etc, it would be nice to know just what the **bleep** went on.
Steve W
