Help with VSX-820 Not showing Dolby Digital or DTS indicators in Display

[BIslander]

Originally Posted by LG416

I guess "Mix" the Blu-ray player decodes the audio and "direct" the audio gets decoded by the Reciever.

Mix forces player decoding and mixes in secondary audio, when present. Direct uses the HDMI handshake to determine whether the player decodes or bitstreams. But, you don't get secondary audio. Since your AVR can decode lossless, the S350 will bitstream when set to Direct.