Watching Blu-Ray with DD/DTS receiver

[Tinman7783]

Originally Posted by Big Daddy

If your receiver has HDMI, that is the cable you should use for HD audio. In most cases, setting your player to LPCM is preferred as bitstream may not give you secondary audio, etc.

Optical/Coaxial cables are good for older receivers that don't have HDMI input. You can only get the old DD and DTS with Optical/Coaxial. Both DD and DTS are encoded at higher bit rates on blu-ray disc and should give you better audio than DVD. Unless you have different older and newer equipment in your setup, there is no good reason to connect both HDMI and optical cables from a BD player to a receiver. I only use one HDMI cable for my BD player and it satisfies all my needs and there is less cable mess in the back of the receiver.

Great...thanks. Is there a way to adjust the db on the surrounds during lpcm playback?