Pretty much the same:

I'm still at version 2.X 861 ... While I desire the room correction, the upgrade is failry costly and Meridian is slow to come out with upgrades. I keep withholding investing more into Meridian, however, ultimately I would like a DD True HD and DTS Master HD playback cpability, and I would have liked it a while back. I'm going to be evaluating the competitions audio processers and may abandon Meridian. I need to look at the Dolby digital Lake correction system, Tact, and the others...

In any case, it is obvious Bluray is the winner and is here to stay, so I'd like not to be the last one with Bluray support, DD True HD, and DTS Master HD. I think Meridian needs to do something very soon, its really getting old being the last person to get everything. This stuff costs too much to be disappointed...

I assume since there is already a ton of DSP power with the Version 4 861, that DD True HD and DTS Master HD will mostly be a software upgrade, and I assume an HDMI 1.3 card... I'd still like to know the plan for decoding DD True HD and DTS Master HD... Are Bluray players like Pioneer, the PS3, etc... are they decoding the DD True HD and DTS master HD internally to PCM and then out via HDMI to the 861? Any advantage to sending the undecoded bitstream via HDMI 1.3 to the 861 vs getting the decoded PCM from a PS3?


Last edited by Health Nut; 2007-08-17 07:50.
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