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Originally Posted by tilallr1

Yeah ... thats a 5.1 receiver ... why is it lighting up 7.1. Are you sure its saying 7.1? Did you upgrade the wrong firmware?

This isn't even an HD receiver ... is it? Ok I just looked at the specs:


DTS Neo:6 , DTS decoder , Dolby Pro Logic II , Dolby Digital

Nope no DTS-MASTER and Dolby TrueHD.

Ok ... so I was a bit confused ... what you are now seeing on your blu-ray player is the newer HD audio codecs. Which are DTS-MASTER HD and Dolby TrueHD. Unfortunetly, you will need a new receiver to actually hear these codecs in full. But chances are you are listening to the down-sampled version of them through PCM on your receiver. Which is still better than standard DTS and Dolby Digital. Which is probably why you have noticed the improvement. You will notice an even bigger improvement when you one day upgrade your receiver.

My receiver does pull audio from the HDMI but does not decode (thus why I am having my player decode). I should still be getting lossless audio though if the player is decoding and I am running PCM at the receiver correct?

The 7.1 I am referring to is tough to explain, on my receiver it has little orange boxes to ident the speakers. The picture below shows it a bit more on the right hand side of the display. It has two more speakers pictured under the SL & SR orange boxes.

RX-V463