[Python504]

I've justed started to look for a good and cheap home surround system and I found the Sony HT-DDW995. It seems very good and right up for my price range, but I do have one question about. I also have a blu-ray player, and I was wondering how the receiver will play the next-gen options. I know that it won't decode them fully, and for a PCM track it'll only play it as two channels. I'm curious about how it'll playback both TrueHD and DTS-HD. Will it play TrueHD as a regular 5.1 Dolby Digital Track and DTS-HD as a regular 5.1 DTS track. I hope someone can give me a little insight to this.

Thanks and much appreciated.

[Paul McElligott]

Does your player decode the HD formats and does it have analog 5.1 outputs?

[Bluzman]

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Originally Posted by Python504

I've justed started to look for a good and cheap home surround system and I found the Sony HT-DDW995. It seems very good and right up for my price range, but I do have one question about. I also have a blu-ray player, and I was wondering how the receiver will play the next-gen options. I know that it won't decode them fully, and for a PCM track it'll only play it as two channels. I'm curious about how it'll playback both TrueHD and DTS-HD. Will it play TrueHD as a regular 5.1 Dolby Digital Track and DTS-HD as a regular 5.1 DTS track. I hope someone can give me a little insight to this.

Thanks and much appreciated.

IIRC, if you set the player audio to AUTO and connect to the 995's receiver with HDMI, you'll get regular DD/DTS (if you set it to PCM, you'll only get 2 channels as you already know). You can probably also force this to happen by connecting the player to the receiver with a digital audio cable (optical or coax) but that defeats the purpose of having a receiver that handles audio over HDMI (which the 995 does).

[Python504]

Thanks for the info.

[Python504]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Paul McElligott

Does your player decode the HD formats and does it have analog 5.1 outputs?

The Player I have is BDP-S300 (which doesn't decoded the HD Formats), but I'm hoping to upgrade to a different player in the next couple of months.