Panasonic BD35 to Denon 3808CI lossless audio

[doublegarage]

Hello,

hopefully someone can help me, big audio setup issue between my Panasonic BD35 and Denon 3808 CI - both are now upgraded to latest firmware (Dec 22) - I'm using Batman Dark Knight as a Dolby TrueHD source.

BD35 is setup to output bitstream for Dolby or DTS over HDMI, Secondary audio is set to 'off'. when playing the movie I use the pop-up menu, go to languages and select "English Dolby TrueHD". Then when I press 'display' the 'signal type' on the BD it says I am outputting sountrack '2ENG - Dolby TrueHD Multi'.....therefore as far as I am able to tell, the BD Player is set up right.

On the other end of the HDMI cable is the Denon 3808CI. It just sits there saying "Dolby Digital" and not lighting the TrueHD light ever. (same with other disks too btw). If I look at the 'signal monitor' in the menu it says 'Dolby Digital 3/2/.1, Fs 48kHz'...which all adds up to it not seeing a TrueHD source.

Right now I'm suspecting the Player, because it actually admits to downmixing to Dolby Digital when secondary audio is enabled (it isn't) - but it could be the receiver. I can set the Player to PCM, the Denon then correctly reports "Multi-CH" but I have no idea whether it's plain DD or TrueHD, because I don't trust either of them right now - and I really hate not understanding why it won't say TueHD on the receiver.

All I can think of now is going to buy a non-Panasonic BDplayer to determine whether it's the receiver or the player and returning whichever is bad. 4 days playing with setups now and I am spent

anybody any more ideas? Thanks

-Richard (doublegarage)