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Steve Schaffer · 07-23-2007, 02:36 PM

Your HD-DVD player is working correctly. All decoding of Dolby Digital Plus and Dolby Tru HD is done by the player and output as 5.1 multichannel PCM.

This is why your receiver is displaying PCM as the incoming audio signal.

Many receivers are not capable of performing 7.1 processing on incoming 5.1 PCM, apparently yours is one of them, but consider yourself lucky as there are a lot of "HDMI" receivers that can't even accept 5.1PCM at all.

07-23-2007, 02:36 PM	#4 of 8
Steve Schaffer Member Join Date: Apr 1999 Local Time: 01:07 AM Local Date: 12-02-2008 Posts: 5,000	Re: HD DVD - PCM - HTR-5990 - Do I have this right? Your HD-DVD player is working correctly. All decoding of Dolby Digital Plus and Dolby Tru HD is done by the player and output as 5.1 multichannel PCM. This is why your receiver is displaying PCM as the incoming audio signal. Many receivers are not capable of performing 7.1 processing on incoming 5.1 PCM, apparently yours is one of them, but consider yourself lucky as there are a lot of "HDMI" receivers that can't even accept 5.1PCM at all. Steve S. I prefer not to push the subwoofers until they\'re properly run in.