Recently i bought a Philips 727k DVD player with a 192Khz audio DAC. The specs says that it is for superb audio reproduction. But i dont understand the real purpose of it, since the player cannot playback/recognize a DVD-A format. Off course the player can still play the disc, using DVD-V format that it can recognize reproducing the DD or DTS companion audio track. What i know is these DD & DTS audio are sampled at 48Khz sampling rate, so it seems that the 192Khz DAC for audio playback serves no purpose at all. Does anyone out there know the answer? please tell me!.

Okay, another thing is that i'm suspecting that the 192Khz DAC chip does have the capability to decode the MLP format (DVD-A), only Philips have disable it for some reason that they did not support DVD-A format, since they are on the SACD side for quite a few years now.

With these in mind (i think), is it possible to force the player to recognize the DVD-A format and make it play the hi-res portion of audio through a firmware hack? since the hardware is already there, it is just a matter of enabling/programming certain modes in the chip itself.

Since i did not know exactly what type of DAC i mean the part number/manufacturer that my player have unless i have to open up the chasis and confirm it myself, or anyone out there know this please inform me.