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[aramis109]

Originally Posted by ClinicaTerra LTD

I was in the EXACT same boat as the OP -- bought the Onkyo 605 to have it decode the new formats internally and to see the TrueHD and Master Audio indicators light up...found out afterwards that my Panny '10A didn't bitstream the codecs...

Wicky Woo is correct -- and I found out the frustrating hard way myself -- in that TrueHD and Dolby Digital Plus must be set to "PCM" in the '10A because the PLAYER must decode the tracks and send them over HDMI or analog as multichannel PCM...you can keep the "DTS-HD" audio setting on the '10A to "PCM" as well if you want, so the player can decode the DTS-HD soundtracks from certain rare discs but I personally keep this setting on BITSTREAM so the CORE DTS tracks from Master Audio soundtracks on some Blu rays get passed via bitstream to my 605...the '10A doesn't support Master Audio at all, so what it does is extract the "core" DTS mix on the disc and sends THAT as bitstream if you have "DTS-HD" set to bitstream...a huge Panny quirk, but that's one of the reasons I want to sell my '10A and just get a player that outputs all codecs as bitstream.

HOWEVER if you want the TRUE decoded DTS-HD audio found on some Blu rays you should keep DTS HD set to PCM on the '10A.

Why would you NOT have it sent via PCM? Just so you can see DTS light up on the receiver? Even if it could bitstream it they'd sound nearly identical if not exactly so.