Meridian Unplugged - Powered by MrTechGuy.co.uk Forums Discussion Meridian - Systems Dolby Digital Plus and 861v8

I have the HD621. I think mine is probably one of the earlier units.

The movies play right out of the K Scape player which is like a blu-ray player except it streams the actual bit for bit blu-ray off a server. The problem comes in the decoding of the audio.

My solution was to have a receiver modified so the receiver took in a HDMI feed (I split it) and did the high res audio -> PCM conversion and then output 3 SPDIF coax into the 861, just like an 800 would do. This worked fine until the receivers HDMI input board seems to have gone on the blink. I've tried using a spare blu-ray player in addition to the K player and the receiver is not registering a signal, even though it is there. Normally the receiver would show a diagram for all the channels it is receiving, but now it's gone blank. I'm going to have a specialist have a look at it. In the mean time I'm just having the K Player decode the core audio to PCM and that goes out over HDMI into my Radiance and then into the HD621.