TV data rate seems really high

[wiimseb123]

For reference, I have my TV connected to the Wiim Ultra via an HDMI arc cable. The Ultra then feeds into a DBX processor/DAC via a digital COAX cable. The DBX then feeds into a couple of amps via RCA cables.

When I play a regular YouTube music video (not YouTube TV or premium) from my TV YouTube app, the data rate reflected on the the Wiim Ultra screen and app, seems really high....2304KBPS 24b-bit/48kKHz. I don't understand why the data rate seems much higher than a CD quality Red Book.wav file of 1411KBPS 16-bit 44.1KHz. I thought regular YouTube sound quality was quiet low...closer to 192KBPS...hard to say because they have their own codec? I notice the same thing on popular videos that review the Wiim Ultra. I'm sure I'm missing something and there is a very simple explanation. Can anyone shed more light on this?

 

[Mr Ee]

Welcome.

I'd suspect (and expect) that the tv simply resamples everything to 24/48 and spits it out as uncompressed lpcm.

 

[wiimseb123]

I'm not sure how a TV would resample a compressed file and "spot it out uncompressed?". Am I missing something...the resulting file quality can't be higher than the original file quality? Are you saying that my TV has the capability of upsampling my signal and I'm watching regular YouTube videos at a HD (lossless) quality?