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wjb510 · 03-06-2008, 06:48 AM

I recently got a Panasonic DMP-BD30K Blu-ray player and have a Yamaha HTR-5760 receiver. I’ve always used optical cables for the audio in my home theater, but now I’m faced with a problem. With the optical cable I’m not able to take advantage of Uncompressed PCM 5.1 audio. I am not able to use HDMI for my audio (my Yamaha receiver does not have HDMI inputs/outputs) so that leaves me looking at 5.1-Channel/multi-Channel cables.

I’ve never used this type of connection, what are the pros and cons with 5.1-Channel/multi-Channel connections vs. optical?

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wjb510 *Will* Member Join Date: Mar 2008 Local Time: 05:40 PM Local Date: 10-15-2008 Posts: 1	5.1-Channel/multi-Channel output I recently got a Panasonic DMP-BD30K Blu-ray player and have a Yamaha HTR-5760 receiver. I’ve always used optical cables for the audio in my home theater, but now I’m faced with a problem. With the optical cable I’m not able to take advantage of Uncompressed PCM 5.1 audio. I am not able to use HDMI for my audio (my Yamaha receiver does not have HDMI inputs/outputs) so that leaves me looking at 5.1-Channel/multi-Channel cables. I’ve never used this type of connection, what are the pros and cons with 5.1-Channel/multi-Channel connections vs. optical?