Originally Posted by jack d
Originally Posted by GGA
Hi Jack,

Thanks for the feedback. I did confirm with Dish both by email and telephone that HDMI passes DD5.1 and have tried the various Audio menus in the Dish.

To keep in perspective with my problem, 6-channel PCM from my PS3 works perfectly. DD does not work properly with either my PS3 or Sat.

If you (or anyone else) has a chance, could you please play a DD disc through your BD player and see if your processors says it is receiving AC3?

Thanks,
George

OK. Was watching a TIVO recording from a HD tv program. The "previously" section was in DD 2.0 and AC3 2.0 showed up on the stream display. Then when the actual episode started it switched to AC3 3/2.1.

When I tried a SD DVD through my BR player, the stream display shows MHR96K and the G68 applies "cinema" DSP. The thing is I have the BR player set to output LPCM. So not really a good check for DD.

In my limited understanding at least it seems the TIVO is sending out AC3 and the 621 recognizes it and passes it through to the processor.

That all sounds correct to me. I don't know of any player that lets you send DD as bitstream but HD Audio as LPCM.

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