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Originally Posted by darkside

My understanding is this. If you use the 6 channel analog hookup the HD DVD player will decode the full DDplus and send it to your receiver as PCM. Your receiver will output the full DDplus with no quality lost. The Toshiba can also decode DD TrueHD, but only as two channel sound.

With the Sony Blu-ray player it will work the same way with the LPCM endoded Blu-ray discs if you also use the 6 channel analog hookup. The slight limitation for at least the Sony version of the Blu-ray player is DDplus. The Sony player can't decode DDplus, DD TrueHD or DTS-HD and can only extract the 5.1 core. That sound can be sent over the standard digital coax or digital optical connection.

Close, but not quite right. Right now, no next-gen DVDps can send the hi-res audio signal in its native bitstream (still waiting on HDMI 1.3 for this one). The decoding of the packed signal in uncompressed PCM must be done in the player. From there we have two options - send the uncompressed PCM to the pre/pro (or receiver) via HDMI or send all the soundtrack information in analog form via the 5.1 (or 7.1) analog outputs. Simply decoding the bitstream isn't a big deal and I couldn't care less if it happens in the DVDp or the pre/pro. However, I would much rather have my pre/pro handle the digital to analog conversion, bass management, etc.

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Originally Posted by Jimmy 345

What makes you so sure? Blu-Ray isn't out yet and neither are any 1080p players. You have no way to compare native 1080p inputs to upconverted 1080i. So how do you absolutly know that they won't look better? Again we will find out next month whether or not Im right or your right. I can't wait to find out. To be proven wrong or not.

There are two things that make me "so sure." First, I own a 1080p set, and have seen the quality of the 1080i signal from my HD-DVDs on it. There are no interlace artifacts present in the image. And second, there have been reviews of the player posted on various AV web sites by people who look specifically for such problems, and their findings exactly agree with mine.

You've already been proven wrong. Sorry about that.