Yes. It was unbelievable. A great book destroyed.
Why buy the film rights to a great story and then complete ruin it? It successfully removed most of Roald Dahl's magic. It made Mr Fox behave like a bigoted hollywood star.
If you have ever read the Fantastic Mr Fox, steer well clear of this...
I found another - cheaper - way to achieve this. I updated PowerDVD 7.3 (came bundled with my LG Blu-Ray ROM drive) to PowerDVD 9 Ultra ($59). PowerDVD 9 Ultra is able to decode PAP and pass uncompressed Dobly TrueHD and DTS HD through the graphics card HDMI output. It is also Win 7 compatible...
Thanks for those explanations. I have discovered that I wasn't getting the 7.1 (downsampled) because the graphics card setup had defaulted itself to 5.1. I shall look into those solutions you suggest.
PAP rhymes nicely with CR*P.
Why they bother is beyond me as PAP was cracked yonks ago. If...
I've recently upgraded my home theatre PC to HD by changing the DVD unit to an LG Blu-Ray player and installing an ATI 4670 graphics card. This passes the digital audio stream directly to the receiver (Onkyo TX-SR607) over the HDMI connection.
However, this doesn't work for HD. It seems to pass...