What's wrong with TrueHD?!?

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Originally Posted by DaViD Boulet

But any Blu-ray player that can do FULL decoding of Dolby Digital TrueHD should be producing the same results as a receiver. If it's not, there's a problem in process that we should figure out!

Neither the BDP-94 or 95 actually decode. The receiver does the decoding. The next generation of Pio BDP coming in January will have internal decoding.

On the box of the BDP-94 it stated True HD capability (and no HDMA capability), however, in the manual it states that True HD is played as PCM or DD. The Pioneer rep stated that the Dolby THD and DTS HDMA chipsets were not available at that time (and so did the Pio tech I spoke to on the phone) This is why I traded the 94 back and got the 95.