Originally Posted by SteveF
Originally Posted by Frank
The HDMI Box converts to digital lossless codecs from the HDMI output to MHR so that you can input them directly into the multi-channel digital inputs of your G68, eliminating the analog section of your Blu-ray player and the extra D/A - A/D steps, the result of which is better sound. That is why everyone is excited about the HDMI Box.

That sounds more like bitstreaming. My understanding is that the player decodes the lossless to pcm and transmits that over the hdmi connection to this new box. Considering the box has multiple hdmi inputs, it's going to be used for more than a blu-ray player. What would be nice is if this box decoded legacy dd/dts and forwarded multichannel pcm to the processor. That would allow upsampling (and in the future the adopizing filter) in the processor. It would add more value to this box to support upsampling of cable/sat, the old dvd player, whatever else.

You're correct. I guess I didn't choose my words carefully enough. Perhaps I should have said "extracts the multi-channel LPCM stream from the HDMI output and makes it available so that it can be transmited over MHR directly to the multi-channel digital inputs of the G68/861." Sorry for the confusion.

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