Originally Posted by George Mills
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.
Technically correct George, though I'm not sure it makes a lot of sense to pay $2500 for the HDMI Box just to upsample lossy DD and DTS from a standard DVD player which is where I thought the question was heading. It's something akin, to use a current phrase, to putting lipstick on a pig. Naturally it is a side benefit of having a Blu-ray player and an HDMI Box when playing standard DVDs. I'm with you; I am in favor of letting the Meridian processor do the decoding and foregoing upsampling.

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