[Alwayswantmore]

Thanks much. Digital or not, sounds like the 50 will be worth the couple hundred extra. I could always run digital for day-to-day use, and swap to analog for special movies if there is enough difference to warrant the effort.

Your posts on 2ch audio have been VERY informative. Take care, Kent

[ricmon]

Ricmon,

Just to get this straight here. Are you getting the Blu-ray video playing from your HTPC and the audio output can be bitstreamed to your Sony receiver using digital out (coax or Opt) ? (I assume your receiver can decode TureHD and DTS HD MA ?
This is meaning that your receiver will show DTSHD or BitStream Master or TureHD message on the display  ?
If this is true,  what software do you use to take the audio bitstream out to digital output of your PC ?
This is exactly what most of us would like to do.  I use my PS3 for blu-ray movies only because I cannot pass bitstream out from HTPC to receiver for decoding.  I hate sony forces you us to decode DTS HD MA internally and convert into PCM for HDMI output.  I am not sure how good is sony's codec for DTS HD Ma decoding.

Most of you guys know a lot more about the Blu-Ray audio specs than I but when I choose the DTS option all I know is that the receiver displays that it's receiving a DTS stream and the sound is incredible.  As far as software goes I'm using on board audio (nforce drivers) and Power DVD software.

[mateo]

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