Originally Posted by Kal Rubinson
Originally Posted by Simon
2. Decoding HD audio codecs in the player gets to PCM. PCM then gets sent to the processor for the D/A conversion - much like is currently done by 800 for DVD. So, unless I misunderstand also, you are still passing a digital signal to the processor - not an analog one.
Yes, and this is exactly what can be accomplished with HDMI 1.1 (or any newer version).

Yes. But there is a big difference between passing digital 0 & 1's and passing digital music wink

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