[ph0ust]

hi all. so i have had my atv for a long time and play my own movies a lot. i get my movies that i rip to play in 5.1 via encoding with handbrake using ac3 passthrough. i just downloaded an atv hd rental and noticed that i can't seem to get it to play anything other than prologic???? what the hell is up with that? does apple only encode movies in dpl? even hd movies? and if so......... what the hell is the point of great video quality with crap audio? someone help me out here.... thanks.

[Will Brocklebank]

I found the same thing - or at least think I have. Any thoughts?

[BRussell]

Apple says that not all HD movies have 5.1 sound, but many (most?) do.

[ph0ust]

how does one check to see what the audio encoding is? on the itunes store, it doesn't seem to say anything about audio when you look at movie information.

[BRussell]

I don't know about the iTunes store, but on the AppleTV movie descriptions, there's sometimes a little dolby symbol.

[Mrjinglesusa]

I've rented two HD movies and both played in 5.1.