Help Sony receiver stopped decoding high end audio. (1 Viewer)

I have a Sony receiver str-dn840 and a Sony blu ray player just a little over a year old. The receiver correctly decoded all audio formats until last week. Now dts-ma becomes dts and dolby digital plus and dolby true HD become dolby digital. I have quadruple checked all the settings on the blu player and receiver. Returned both to factory settings and started over and I also replaced the hdmi cable with a brand new one.
Any ideas. Receiver is bad? Blu Ray is bad? Seems weird that either would be bad that soon. Everything else is working on both.

The BD player is set bitstream?

That is the only setting(besides SAP off) that matters.

It actually doesn't have a selection for Bitstream. Just digital audio output which has a choice of either auto or pcm. It is set to auto.
The blu ray player displays the correct audio format but the receiver is no longer decoding it correctly.

Sounds like it could be a handshake problem. The receiver should be telling you what signal it is receiving.


When in doubt, unplug the power from both the BR player and receiver, wait a couple minutes, then plug them back in. You have to disconnect the power.

Tried unplugging and also updating software still no luck. It does sound like a handshake issue but they were working for a year and then suddenly stopped. Starting to think that there is a problem with either the blu ray or the receiver.

Try a new hdmi cable...

What content are you testing with, that shows this decode problem?

My suggestion would be to play a disc that the Sony Receiver properly decoded before.


Also, in response to a previous post, Randy already tried a brand new HDMI Cable, which didn't solve his issue.


CHEERS!

(crickets) Yawn.