Is 1.3 HDMI necessary for Dolby True HD and DTS-HD Master Audio?

[jmy350z]

Do I need a 1.3 HDMI receiver to take advantage of Dolby True HD and DTS-HD Master Audio? If not,what receivers out there can do this?

 

[Seth=L]

HDMI 1.3 is required for the receiver to decode those next-gen formats.

However, the HD-DVD and Blu-ray players have decoders built in for some of these formats. They decode it internally and convert it to lossless PCM (no data is lost) and is transmitted via HDMI to an appropriate receiver for 7.1 PCM decoding.

 

[no. 5]

Do I need a 1.3 HDMI receiver to take advantage of Dolby True HD and DTS-HD Master Audio? If not,what receivers out there can do this?

No, you don't.

As Seth pointed out all HD DVD players will do the decoding internally, as for Blu-ray; since the new audio codex (DD+, True HD, DTS-HD ect...) are not required to be on Blu-ray releases - like DD+ is for HD DVD releases - some Blu-ray players do not have support for them.

All you need to take advantage (for the receiver anyway) of True HD and DTS-HD, is HDMI of any version, or a six channel analogue input.

If, however, you want the receiver to do the decoding, you need HDMI v1.3a. I can think of two receivers that will do the decoding that are available for preorder; the Onkyo 605... and I can't remember the other one.

 

[MACCA350]

See this thread

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