[goenkar]

Keith,

My apologies if this has been anwered before ...

Can we expect players in the near future that will decode advanced codecs such as DTS-HD MA/True HD internally and output them as PCM via HDMI ?

While the newly announced Panasonic is nice, it appears from initial reports that it only sends bitstream via HDMI.

Is this the trend going forward ?

Or do folks like me who have (2) receivers with HDMI 1.1 have reason to hope that we will get internal decoding to PCM from some future players.

But I was under the impression that all players needed to support internal decoding to PCM. It appears that was incorrect.

Thanks