Originally Posted by Dolf
Thanks VK, now I am begining to understand some of the discussion on the video side of the HDMI issue.
Originally Posted by Frank
The digital output of your Blu-ray player only carries the standard lossy Dolby Digital and DTS soundtracks. It cannot carry the new lossless codecs - Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD Master soundtracks which are carried digitally only over HDMI.
To make sure that I am extrapolating correctly, is it therefore correct to say that the new HDMI box will have no application for standard CD or standard DVD?
Why? HDMI (1.3) can carry any of the audio formats.

Kal

Kal Rubinson
"Music in the Round"
Senior Contributing Editor, Stereophile