I have a question

[CH108]

Consider this:

My current system consists of my panasonic BD30 being plugged into my home theatre out of a box which only does Dolby and DTS through a optical cable.

Any BD's with HD audio I have to set to PCM on the player and I think that gives me two channel down converted Dolby or DTS depending on the codec.

The reciever of the home theatre in a box has 5.1 analouge inputs.

If I bought a Panasonic BD50 and set the player to decode would I be able to get 5.1 HD audio if I made a connection using the analouge input/outputs between the player and the reciever?

Any advice would be greatly appreciated, I would rather go this method because of the size of my bedroom and the cost of buying an HD audio reciever and new speakers.

[MacDaddyOJack]

Yes, that option will give you HD audio. But by using the analog inputs, you won't be able to apply any bass management or tone controls. This shouldn't be much of a problem though since most recievers do not apply much sound processing anyways when recieving a TrueHD or DTS-MA source.

[Big Daddy]

Originally Posted by CH108

Consider this:

My current system consists of my panasonic BD30 being plugged into my home theatre out of a box which only does Dolby and DTS through a optical cable.

Any BD's with HD audio I have to set to PCM on the player and I think that gives me two channel down converted Dolby or DTS depending on the codec.

The reciever of the home theatre in a box has 5.1 analouge inputs.

If I bought a Panasonic BD50 and set the player to decode would I be able to get 5.1 HD audio if I made a connection using the analouge input/outputs between the player and the reciever?

Any advice would be greatly appreciated, I would rather go this method because of the size of my bedroom and the cost of buying an HD audio reciever and new speakers.

The short answer to your question is yes. You can get HD audio through analog cables. I suggest that you read A Guide to Home Theater Audio Codecs for better understanding of what you need to do for speaker setup and bass management.

[CH108]

Thank you both for your help I will read that guide.

[Lucy Diamond]

You will get great sound that way.

That is how I did it when I was rocking the Rx-1400.

I still have my Rx-1800 setup for analog PCM, but I rarely use it now.

Good luck and enjoy, because it is going to be sick.

[JasonR]

If you are using a HTiB receiver, I would consider replacing it with a new receiver that decodes the HD codecs over HDMI before replacing the BD-30.