Lot of people already know that DreamMultimedia DM 800 HD PVR doesnt supports Dolby Digital+ audio. Lot of people asked DreamMultimedia any solution in this forum even in a lot more... But DreamMultimedia doesnt says anything for lot o months (they said too many month ago was that they were working on, down lines i put some answers...), so:
First of all: If it's really not possible to have DD+ support in ours DM 800 HD, please, let us know, then we will stop asking for it!
And then:
WHY this silence? Why DM doesnt offers an answer to the people who had expended more than 300€ in one of their manfactured machines?
Is DM really working in any solution?
Why DM800 is called HD if it doesnt support DD+, the european HD audio standard?
Will DM 800 SE support DD+ (at least it comes with HDMI)? If yes, is it possible that DM wants us to sell our DM 800 and to buy then a DM 800 SE?
BTW: If any DM guy thinks that this message has to be deleted, of course you can delete it, it's your forum, but I've read the new rules, and I belive i'm using the "Freedom of Opinion" (first point). You have to take care about that there are too many people with this problem around the world and at least we want to hear something about it, just to hear something......
Thanks in advance. Regards.
Two MAY 2010 answers (i dont know if who answered was from DM but I suposed it):
m0rphU: "There were some Threads in this forum stating that DMM works on it, but they have to wait for Broadcom (chip manufacturer) to apply the neccesary changes in microcode or something..."
marder02: "As m0rphU explained, the DM800/8000 are not powerful enough to decode DD+ (or AC3+) in software, so DM needs to obtain specific microcode from Broadcom (provider of the main processor) to decode it in hardware. Unfortunately, the situation has been like this for several months, DM being unable to give an estimated milestone. We are not informed whether it is Broadcom that is dragging its feet for unkown reasons (money ???) or DM that considers this implementation as a lower priority and does not put pressure on Broadcom to get the required microcode."