Honva;270671 Wrote: > .....It is good for all of us with only one format. Blue-ray sales > should go up fast and price should start to drop to the $150-$200 level > soon. However, for most people, the main cost of the switch is not > buying the player, but to upgrade the Receiver.........
Yes, in the long run, good for all. There are probably millions worldwide (potentially 10's of millions) who (like me) will eventually go Blu-ray in the next couple of years now that there is a clear format to buy. As for the AVR there are three different ways to achieve lossless HD audio from an HD/BD player and, depending on your AVR, may not require an new AVR. 1. player decodes audio and sends to AVR via 5.1 or 7.1 analog (requires player and AVR have discrete analog out's/in's respectively) 2. player decodes audio and sends to AVR as PCM (MPCM) via HDMI (requires AVR with HDMI 1.1 audio input) 3. player sends raw audio (bitstream) to AVR via HDMI, AVR decodes audio (requires AVR with HDMI 1.3 and onboard HD audio codecs) -- toby10 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ toby10's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=12553 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=43609 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
