Yamaha's new RX-V861 1080p upconverting receiver for a grand

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RaynorWolfcastle @ Apr 23rd 2007 5:26PM

This receiver certainly CANNOT accept Dolby TrueHD as it only has HDMI 1.2a (as per the product page). To pass Dolby TrueHD or DTS-HD Master Audio, both the source and destination must use HDMI 1.3 or better.

With that said, as long as you have a player that can decode the TrueHD or DTS-HD MA stream to LPCM it is a non-issue as LPCM can be passed over earlier revisions of HDMI.

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ph @ Apr 24th 2007 4:34AM

Actually, this receiver can play back true HD, however it needs the HD DVD player to decode it to linear PCM, something that ALL current HDDVD players can do over HDMI.

HDMI 1.3 is COMPLETELY unnecessary for true hd, and in fact could possibly be worse since the player could not mix the HD DVD sound with its own before sending it to the receiver.

In fact HDMI 1.3 is pretty much completely unnecessary period.

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