Roku or new BDP?

[rdodolak]

Originally Posted by Schultzy

Does anyone hdmi it to a avr instead of tv? I'd like to do this to get sound through my speakers but am not sure if I can.

I do just that and get sound through my receiver; make sure your receiver supports HDMI 1.3 or newer and DD Plus. Note, if you have your Roku set to output 5.1 surround your receiver must be capable of decoding DD 5.1+ or 7.1+ in order to get DD 5.1/7.1 sound out of the titles that offer DD+. If your receiver does not have that capability then you'd have to change the setting on the Roku to output DD 2.0 to get sound out of those titles. The current Rokus don't have the capability to internally decode DD+ so it just passes it through to the receiving equipment.