Originally Posted by Frank
Originally Posted by Dolf
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?
I think that is accurate. I would just use the standard digital input for CDs and DVDs. Some universal players like the Oppos output SACD as PCM over HDMI, but getting Shawn Fogg to modify your player for MHR output would be the most economical route to achieving that goal.

That's not 100% true. On a DVD you can let the player decode DD/DTS and then allow that go over HDMI as LPCM and then the box splits it out and then a G68 can upsample it. Some feel very strongly about upsampling, I've not been convinced yet. Maybe with the new apodizing filters I will be. But in the scenrio above I think I'd still prefer the processor decode DD/DTS.

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