PS5 4K Blu-ray Player Noise Reduction is Secretly Enabled by Default - Here's How to Turn It Off
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- Опубліковано 11 гру 2020
- We explain how to turn off noise reduction on the Sony PS5 4K Blu-ray player app, which is enabled by default, as well as changing a couple of other settings to obtain better sound quality (including Dolby Atmos or DTS:X) from 4K Blu-ray movies.
You'll need to press the [Options] button on your PS5 controller while the 4K Blu-ray player app is running.
The Sony PS5 4K Blu-ray player does not support 3D Blu-rays or Dolby Vision (which will be played back as HDR10 base layer).
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I can't believe there is a video is under 4 min from Vincent.
He is used to lasting under four minutes
*Ding*
You know what you call that.
"Viagra Vinnie"
@@WayStedYou haha savage
Bitstream is greyed out for me on my PS5 when playing a movie. Any ideas please? It worked fine on my Xbox.
Listening to someone who actually know what he/she is talking about never gets old
Yes Vinnie it was short & sweet but everyone of your videos is a treat.
Merry Christmas 🎅 🎄
My audio sounded horrible before these changes. This was so helpful. Thank you!!
Seriously thank you! Have movie nights with my friends every weekend and anytime I played a 4K film or anything I noticed the audio quality was lower than just streaming the film so glad I was able to fix it through the help of this video
Thanks for the Tips ;) You are my new favourite Tech guy on UA-cam :D
As soon as i switched the linear to bitstream it made tge world of a difference! Thank you!!!
Thanks so much for this, changing to bitstream made a big difference! Now I’m able to see DTS Master coming through my Denon.
Brilliant, thanks so much for this useful info Vincent! Keep up the good work.
Thank you so much Vincent for this advice !
Hey bud, thank you for this quick tip video. I'll definitely be making these changes.
very useful, thank you. I've always asked myself on my PS4 Pro too what those audio settings precisely do.
Very useful I switched the audio to bitstream for my atmos but didn’t notice the others thanks :)
That’s crazy, Sony.
Thx for your great Videos, Vincent. 👍
This is really helpful if I ever get a ps5 thanks bro
Like always! Good information 👍🏽
Thank you so much for this video.
It was really helpful. ❤
These settings are probably chosen to reduce complaints or customer support questions. Lineair PCM is compatible with any device, but bitstream requires the receiving component to have the correct decoding capability. With the default set to bitstream, a percentage of customers might be wondering why they can't hear any sound. People are also more likely to complain about noise in an image than about a smoothed image with less detail. The assumption is possibly also that people who can't figure out that they need to change the settings or how to change them are probably also not too critical about sound or image quality to start with while the people who notice that the sound is plain stereo while it should be Dolby Atmos are also knowledgeable enough to figure out how to correct it.
In short, making a highly specialized tool for professional users is easy, making a mass-consumer product for a wide variety of customers is much harder.
Thank you Vincent! I was going to ask, wants you change the settings for one disk, so they stay that way across to other disks. I found out by trying, they do. I could definitely hear the difference when I turned off dynamic range control and also when I changed it to Bitstream
Thank you for the deep dives into the PS5 playback and settings. Can you look into the 4K Blu-ray player and if it is true 24hz? The PS5 is my first 4K Blu-ray player but the frame rate stands out to me as a 60hz signal outputting a 24hz file. To my eye it has that soap opera effect that I can’t unsee. Would love your technical eye on this if possible. Thank you again!
It outputs true 24HZ. Check what your TV is receiving.
This helped so much! I popped in an DBZ DVD and was getting a weird pitchy, staticy sound. Changing audio to bitstream solved this problem.
Thank you for this ❤️
Thank you so much! My heart sank when I tried to play my Steins;Gate Blu-Ray and the AMAZING audio static sound design was seriously reduced.
Vincent, can you make a short video, why it is important to leave oled light and kontrast at 100 for HDR content? Many people don't understand the difference between SDR and HDR and oled light
Thanks for this Vincent
Incredibly helpful for my ps4. I finally understand bitstream lol.
I'm having a problem with playing BDs audio tracks that are in LPCM surround audio however, it stays on stereo even when changing the settings you mentioned. Dolby-truHD and dts-hd-ma work just fine with bitstream, but neither bitstream nor LPCM setting seem to work for LPCM surround sound. Any tips?
I can not believe I just now found out about this!! Lol. Thank you
as always, Sony likes to enable some settings by default that are useless :D
Took me forever to figure this out and then I found this video. Wish I found it sooner but hope it at least helps others. It’s bizarre to me how Sony buried these settings AND set the defaults wrong. Took way too long to get my DTS:X working on my receiver using my PS5.
Regarding the settings set in on the PS5, I think it's cause LPCM is the default for MOST things and has been around the longest. I actually had an audio issue that I fixed just yday because of this. My PS5 was outputting LPCM but my TV (LG E9) was set to receive Bitstream. This resulted in some games audio dialogues (which are usually output through the middle speaker in a 5.1 set up) to simply not play, so all sound worked, except some dialogue. It doesn't really matter which you choose if you don't have a receiver (and even then it only matters for games actually supporting Dolby). Just make sure the receiving end (in my case TV) has the same setting as the PS5, whichever you choose it to be.
Great Vincent thank you
With the automatic subtitles I understand everything
Thanks for the great video;)
Please don’t forget the answer in the adjudt hdr video
Greetings Alex
Make video on sony x900h audio settings
Do these default settings affect gaming? Or only movie watching on ps5? Also my audio is through my TV speaker I don’t have a receiver or external speaker 🔊 is linear pcm best for me or bitstream. My TV is the Sony x900h
Should TV mode be left in game mode for watching 4k blue ray from ps5? I'm using Q95T.
Does the ps5 output true black when playing uhd discs? A prior video of yours had mentioned the series x does not, which is strange because the xbox one does.
Yes it does.
It worked
I’m having the same problem on both the Showtime app And HBO max
Any ideas on how to fix those apps?
Vincent i have a lg up970 4k player would you suggest I continue to use that or the ps5 going forward
Man... thank you! I was wondering why I couldn't get 5.1 audio output from blu rays
Are you going to be doing a 4k player comparison of the ps5 and Xbox? I'm waiting to see if either are worth getting as a player, or if I should just get a standalone. Your video on the Xbox One made me decide not to get one as the video signal is converted to RGB and back
This was a huge help. I was watching a Blu-ray movie on my PS5 and didn’t know why I was having an issue with the audio cutting out when it got quiet. Why is that a thing what the heck lol
Excellent advice again.... just wish I could get hold of a bloody ps5 to turn the setting off!!!!
Hello there! I’ve been struggling with motion blur when playing FIFA on my PS4. I was wondering if “reduce motion” on the ps5 helps remove it. (And if you have a solution for PS4 that would be great) thank you!
I have an LG9 with my PS5 plugged directly into the TV. I then have a thenaudio SHARC going from the TV to my older Onkyo. Should I be using LPCM or DTS? I have 5.1 surround speakers.
Do you agree that the PS5 is very close to the Panasonic UB420 for 4K Blu-ray Disc playback if I do not utilize the tone mapping or Hdr10+ features ever? I have a Samsung TV so Dolby vision is not a concern
Does this include streaming any apps too like Disney+? Or just Blu-ray’s?
It's only in the Blu-Ray player app.
When I first realized how my HDTV is massacring movie image quality with noise reduction, I was truly appalled. NR settings were at "medium" and it was already enough to transform faces in slight shadows into a blurry mush in most Blu-Ray full HD releases. Since then it's NR always off
Question. My PS5 is hooked to my a80j and an older 7.1 Sony sound bar hooked to earc on TV. For audio format should it still be bitstream?
When I changed it to bitstream it says multichannel now instead of 5.1 in the PS5 remote playback settings.
Thanks!!
Can you get bitstream for games because there is a major lag in sound when it’s on Dolby or the other one. I have to put it on liner pcm or whatever it’s called to get rid of the sound lag. I have it doing from ps5 to tv then from my tv to receiver, pass through e-ark. I have 48 gig HDMI’s 2.1 on everything.
Thanks man, the movie was just way tooo quiet
You saved me
very good .. excuse me but I have a question ... why my Xbox x series does not play in the physical format dolby vision and I bought the application ... in stremimg if it is compatible but nothing on my 4k blue ray discs and the discs say they are compatible with dolby mink
I use my Sony XM4's whilst watching Blu Rays will it need Linear PCM or Bitstream? I've got 3D audio turned off as well
Random question but
Should I re do my HDR calibration when I put my tv ( OLED c9) in cinema mode when about to watch a 4k blu ray movie on my ps5?
I’m assuming yes but not seen anyone mention this ? Thanks
You are the Man!
I notice devices always default to PCM, even if they support bitstream. So I look for this when I'm first setting things up.
I always assume its because the engineers have to consider the lowest common denominator in their customers; if they set to bitstream and the customer isn't connecting to a device that supports that, then they will have more calls to customer support with "why no audio!?!?!"
I can only get 2.0 when playing a blu ray that has a 5.1 DTS channel? I'm connected thru hdmi to my Panasonic TV and then optical out from that to my amp. Standard 5.1 plays fine but DTS is just being down converted to 2.0? My ps3 and ps4 had an option in the menus to mix the sound down to 5.1 but there doesn't appear to be one on the PS5?
I found out about linear pcm being an issue when my center channel didn’t come through....on tv stereo speakers or my 5.1 surround. Changed it to bitstream and everything seemed to work.
Vincent can you please do an update on the Sony PS5 and Xbox Series X separately when it comes to UHD 4K HDR Blu Ray disc movies and Dolby Vision and the Dolby Atmos and other features that movies claim to offer and see if the current PS5 and Xbox series X are able to actually process these features or is it too early in terms to firmware versions to talk about this?
You should be hired by these company's lol you would make everything perfect lol
You really think that Sony doesnt know that😂😂😂😂😂 oh man some ppl are really dumb. There are other reasons why they pick different settings sometimes, not because they dont know it better
@@ICEMANZIDANE I was talking about other things
Should an LG CX owner have Dynamic Tone Mapping ON for HDR movies?
Thank you for this! My ps5 keep streaming atmos pcm to my receiver when I only have a 5.1 receiver. Changing it to bitstream it finally show dtshd . I thought I was gonna have to buy a separate bd player to get the audio right
yo man just liked the video and changed to these setting.. first 4k blu ray player.
quick question if anyone can help answer. I'm rocking a SONY 70 inch LED 3D2015 TV. I Know its not 4K and I won't be getting the best picture out put and what not, but its what I have now.
Are these settings beneficial for that? I have my sound coming through a reciever surround sound set up, but my set up is an older model too. nothing with all this Dolby stuff I here about. What exactly are these settings about and do?
Vincent the man. Who the man? Vincent!!! 👍👍
Can you do a series x vs ps5 blu ray comparison please?
Hey, Vincent. Will this setting affect gaming as well?
It's only in the Blu-Ray player app.
Do you switch off of game mode when watching a movie?
Thanks
Hi Vincent, do you think dolby vision could be added to the ps5 at a later date or is there a hardware limitation.
I have a feeling they intentionally left it out and they told microsoft to as well, so that you it would still give you a reason to buy a 4k blu ray player even though I have no proof. There is literally no reason why Sony and Microsoft cant just pass on the dolby vision costs onto us through their stores.
What do you recommend for the sound mode settings I don't have sound bar just tv itself what should I put it on ?
I want to know too, what’s the best for just my tv
I get lower volume sound with some content using Bitstream on the C9 and PS5.
Me too. Especially Amazon Prime watching season 5 of the expanse. Image want good either from the ps5 but it's perfect on the built in c9 Prime Video.
@HDTVTest Ever see it where it skips for BD-Rs but only between chapter 5 and 6? these discs work perfectly through those parts on my PS4 but not on my PS5. and normal Bluray/4Ks work perfectly. any idea what could be causing this?
Hi Vincent my name is Lee. I think I found a fix for the Vizio OLED 2.1 problem based on your findings about the 4K bluray menu. Up until now I wasn't able to get a picture in ports 2 or 3 which are the 120Hz ports. It didn't work at first but I turned the color space range to RGB and then set the HDMI mode to 2.1. Had no picture , plugged the ps5 into port 3 and then back into port 2 and WHAM !! 120Hz working and full color 4:4:4 on. Don't know if it's gonna stay but I'm playing games and movies in port 2 and gaming at 120Hz now. The PS5 is now saying it's playing at 120Hz. I hope you can figure this all the way out. Thank you.
I have a , ps5, LG c1, and a pioneer receiver. I'm using a HDMI 2.1 cable from ps5 to c1 and optical from c1 to receiver. I can't get dts to work. I know it did with my old tv . Can't get the c1 to passthrough dts.
Vincent , this is a great help mate. I tried to watch Jaws in 4k yesterday and for some reason it was an incredibly soft grainy picture. The same with the newer Justice league.
The ps5 seemed to be worse than my previous ps4 for movie playback.
This hidden menu explains why it was so bad even after checking the Ps5 visual settings and tv settings. I’ve used your videos for various problem solving so thank you Vincent👍🏼
Hey Vincent can you do video on PS5 system audio like what did for video settings for games there lpcm,bitstream Dolby,bitstream dts thanks keep up for more videos
Vincent do you think we could get Dolby vision at some point or is there some hardware limitation of the drive they’re using?
There is no hardware limitation, you shoukd now be abke fo watch 4k blu rays in dolby atmos with the settings im the video. Provided u have a reciever that can do it. Just realised u meant dolby vision, i think its a software limitation.
@@reign3099 Dolby vision and Dolby atmos are 2 different things. As of right now, the ps5 does not support Dolby vision, I’m asking if it can in the future or there is some kind of hardware limitation. I’m hoping Vincent might know the answer
I want to aswell.
I also would like to know this particular answer. I honestly want to have Dolby Atmos from my PlayStation 5 As well as Dolby Vision
It’ll come in a future firmware update for sure.
Vincent, does it look like even after disabling noise reduction that the PS5 is not outputting 24fps in the correct cadence? It looks like there is baked in motion smoothing to me. I'm outputting to a 1080p Panasonic plasma that just refuses to die. Thanks!
This is only specifically when playing a UHD Blu-ray disc. Streaming content looks fine.
I suspect the LPCM is turned on by default so it always works. Didn't LG remove the DTS CODECs from the CX? If Bitstream was default no sound wound be heard if it is sent to a non-compatible receiver.
Good point.
Exactly. They assume that most people do not have a device that can decode DTHD and HDMA because most don’t unless they have external audio.
That is a right pain with the CX.
It won't even pass through the DTS track to a compatible receiver, tested when trying to send it to my DTSX soundbar through eARC.
Series X says no compatible receiver is connected. Connecting my Series X directly is a no no as my soundbar doesn't pass through HDMI 2.1 either.
Another option if I want to watch a Blu-ray with DTS audio instead of Atmos is have another HDMI cable ready to plug directly into the soundbar from Xbox.
@@johnwakefield4473 I really don’t understand why they removed DTS. It’s true that most brands never supported it in the first place. I could understand removing the internal decoder by why remove ARC/eARC support?
I really hope that they bring it back by the time I have to upgrade.
Sony removed Dolby Atmos because they are making their own Tempest 3D sound that is a improvement on Dolby.
Hello. I have been watching a new series on blu ray on my PS5 and noticed that every few minutes the blu ray skips a few seconds. I have been watching my brand new Dragon Ball Z blu rays and they worked fine on other players. Is there a fix for this or is it a problem with the PS5 blu ray drive?
Please can anyone help. I feel like I'm going mad, I have a Samsung ue55ks8000 that's about 5 years old and had been used a good amount for TV and gaming. I feel like the brightness has reduced from when it was new even with the same maxed out backlight in game mode. Is LED degradation possible on an TV?
Hi Vincent, i am from Malalysia, i have a LG E7 and a Samsung Q950T soundbar. Connected the PS5 to the soundbar then to the TV via Arc. In the PS5 main setting menu, do i leave the sound to LPCM or do i change that to Bitstream as well?
Also can you recommend me a good calibration setting for my tv? It is in a large bright living area with large windows all around.
Bitstream
Ah you mean main menu, that doesn’t matter I think.
Bitstream if your sound bar can decode DTS HDMA. If it can’t then PCM. For Blu-rays with Dolby you should set it to bitstream.
Is there a way to change subtitles because when I change it it doesn't work like I enable closed captions and customise subtitles then when I enable it and enable on the menu
What picture mode should I run when watching movies in 4k uhd ? Vivid,standard,cinema home, cinema, game, filmmaker mode? Thank you
Custom if you have it, otherwise cinema.
And game mode for games.. obviously.
Hi men omg im nkt at home right now but i have a very ugly noise on tv screen QN90A when i use blurays . What i need to do for edices it or errased .. i was thibk was the tv but maybe its the console becuase i dont notice that noise on regular tv. What could be?? please my friend help me
Can someone told me what would be the difference if the noise its on or off? What this do to the picture. ? I ask because i have a very ugly noise at background on some movies..
Bitstream is greyed out for me on my PS5 when playing a movie. Any ideas please? It worked fine on my Xbox.
Hi. I just bought my ps5 disc version last week. I m having problems playing my uhd Blu-ray Disc. The picture comes with two green bars(top and bottom) independent of the film (only happening with the uhd discs, blurays and dvd are fine) some shadow on the pictures too some purple shadow around the edges. Anyone could help me ? 😓
Is the PS5 4K UHD player better than my Sony ubp-x800m2 for playing 4K uhd disks? I haven’t tried it yet because I have both connected to my Samsung Q90T.
No
Can you find a good HDR setting for Cyberpunk 2077
How does the PS5 compare to an entry-level Blu-Ray player?
So is this y sometimes it can look like I'm watching a DVD movie not all the time but sum scenes dont like 4k sim scenes r either DVD quality or blu ray quality
When I finally get a PS5, this will be very useful. We'll see how my chances fare this new year.
Would it be worth to get dolby vision blurayplayer insted of ps5?
Mainly now for lord of the rings hdr.
Could you do hdr vs dolbyvision lord of the rings.
I have the Sony UBP-X700, and the total bits coming from it on 4K Blu-ray playback is 12, while the PS5 maxes out at 10. I have yet to see Dolby Vision on any of the 4K discs I own.
But my PS5 is still set to game mode altogether. Should I just switch to My cinema hdr mode when I watch a film?
Thank you ^_^
I watched the 4K blu ray of Home Alone yesterday on my ps5, through a lgcx 55inch oled. It looked really fantastic. I was very impressed. Some 4K blu rays are awful.
Hi
I also play 4k discs on my ps5 whith my oled but it looks super grainy. I love grain but there is more than its supposed to be.
Also my 1080p blu rays are way too dark.
Do you have these problems?
I have a problem and can someone help me, when im watching a movie from the blu-ray/dvd the sound mute on its own and it only do that with movies not my games, and when i mute and un-mute the sound with my remote it come back but go off 5-10 minutes after, and it did that after an update cause it weren’t doing that before.
How can I see the current bit rate watching blu rays on ps5
I don't have atmos speakers just a 5.1 setup. So is leaving it at LPCM fine?
Bitstream is the better option unless you have a TV which doesn’t support DTS over eARC.
No
Try both, you won't notice a difference.
I am experiencing a weird issue with both my PS5 and Xbox Series X blu-ray drives.
Neither would play the Legend of the Holy Drinker (Arrow Academy) blu-ray. They both can read and identify the disc and the PS5 even shows its title with a screenshot from a movie. When I try launching it though, the blu-ray player app starts normally but then after a few seconds of "please wait" on a black screen it quits back to the PS5 UI. Same thing with the Series X, which lingers for a while and quits to the UI.
The blu-ray is listed as a Region B disc, while my next-gen consoles are Region C.
HOWEVER, this particular disc has been tested as lacking any regional protection and it still plays perfectly fine on my Region A PS4 and my Region C PS4 Pro.
Anyone experiencing something similar? What could be the issue? Is there a chance Sony fixes this with some sort of a firmware update?