New Sony BD player, BDP-S300

[Jodi]

Originally Posted by Bruce Morrison

But this will NOT be possible for Blu-ray discs authored with Advanced Content. The decoding will have to be done in the player, as it needs to mix other audio tracks in.

That's why I'll be holding out for a Blu-ray player with full on-board decoding for lossless audio.

HDMI 1.3 is being marketed (even by DTS it would appear) as a necessary standard for carrying lossless audio streams to the receiver for decoding, but this is only a half-truth at best. For Advanced Content discs, this ability will be irrelevant. The decoded bitstreams can already be carried by HDMI 1.1 and above.

Bruce, does the Sony BDP-S1 and/or the forthcoming Sony BDP-S300 have full on-board decoding for lossless audio (particularly DTS-HD MA)?

Jodi