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Thanks. Most Any HT AVR Has Optical And 5.1 Inputs

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In Reply to: RE: It's worth it for the lossless audio which will only be available over HDMI (if that) or 5.1 analog outputs. posted by oscar on August 19, 2007 at 06:46:03

Does it matter which AVR? Can J6P get by with a cheap $200 - $300 AVR or does 5.1 for loseless need some special decoder in the AVR? Also which input needs to be chosen on the AVR, I assume it would be the MCH Input on my Denon AVR for the sound for BD? TIA!

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I'm currently using the source players internal decoders/DACs for lossless audio. - oscar 12:59:33 08/19/07 (0)
The LG player can decode 2.0 (HD DVD) or 5.1 (Blu-Ray) TrueHD and uncompressed PCM to it's 5.1 analog outputs. I don't know what the Sony players will support but I'm sure it'll support uncompressed PCM. And yeah, you'll have to set the AVR to MC analog bypass if you are not using HDMI.

Or source players can send TrueHD and DTS HD MA over HDMI to the Receiver (or preamp/processor) for decoding. I'm hazy which version of HDMI supports the different "lossless" audio codecs but I am under the impression no version of HDMI will support full bandwidth uncompressed PCM (I could be very wrong here; I vaguely recall long ago some of the audiophile folks were really "jittery" about attempting to pass high bandwidth audio over HDMI without significant impacts). For DTS HD MA decoding, I'm under the impression you need both source player and Receiver to be able to do the decoding. I'll get smart on HDMI when it comes to time to upgrade the preamp/processor.

I suspect most of your cheaper J6P Receivers will not include 5.1 analog bypass so everything they will need will require HDMI and the decoders which go with it. I imagine this years crop of "cheaper" Receivers will not include DTS HD MA decoding. In fact, the only announced player I know about which supports DTS HD MA decoding is the $2000 Denon (there have to be others ??).

Whatever source player you select should still be able to pass "plainjane" DTS/DD over optical or coax digital audio link to your AVR if you want to go this route. Even the DTScore on Blu-ray disks with DTS HD MA soundtracks sound very good going this route.

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