Specifically, are there any recommendations for receivers that can
handle Dolby True HD, or DTS HD? My new HD Player can suppossedly do
DTS HD and I have the Pioneer Elite Bluray on order. My current
receiver only has two HDMI inputs and does not understand the new
surround formats for HD. Since I'm going to move to a reciever with 3
or more HMDI inputs anyway, I figured why not jump into the new
surround formats as well.

Any suggestions? HEY, I mean any useful suggestions?

Ken

"Ken Cobb" <jkcobb@comcast.net> wrote in message
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The HD DVD and Blu-ray players decode the advanced audio formats to
6-channel PCM and output it over HDMI or multi-channel analog. Your
receiver doesn't need to do the decoding. It just needs to have an HDMI
or 5.1 analog input.

There are no receivers on the market that can decode the advanced audio
formats themselves yet. Even if there were, the raw bitstreams for these
formats can only be transmitted by HDMI 1.3, which is currently only
available on one player model from each format (the HD-XA2 for HD DVD,
and the PS3 for Blu-ray).