This is what I found on the Playstation forums:
"I'm having the same exact issue. In fact, it's an issue with all New Line Cinema titles when played on the PS3. The PS3 shows DTS-HD MA and the Receiver (mine's an ONKYO 805) shows 5.1 PCM. But if you'll notice when the opening screen for the films comes up (The New Line Home Entertainment Animation) that is in 7.1. This is the explanation I found on AVS forum.
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"It's not a New Line Issue...
This is a Sony issue... they haven't properly implimented the decoder...
I have spoken to DTS and New Line about why this happens on certain pieces of hardware.
DTS-HD/MA has 7 supported channel configs... the only two 7.1 configs being used right now are 7.1 with side surrounds at 90 degrees and back surrounds at 150 degrees, and 7.1 with rear surrounds at 120 degrees and back surrounds at 150 degrees...
The NL titles use the later for logos, and the former for features.
The decoder should simply pass the side or rear surrounds out the same outputs, regardless of where they are physically placed.. this is certainly a decoder issue, and should've been caught during QC.. it might've been, and should be easily correctable."
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That's what I was told. The guy showed some diagrams from New Line to illustrate the problem, but you get what he's saying. This is a PS3 issue that Sony will have to fix. I just can't believe they didn't catch this earlier. We've been asking for this update for a long time and when we finally get it. It doesn't work right. BTW Star Gate uses 6.1 DTS HD HR and that worked perfectly so it has to be a decoder issue for New Line's 7.1 configuration."
What I did find was that with DTS-HD MA in 5.1, if you set the PS3 to Linear PCM it plays just fine, but DTS-HD MA is not displayed on the receiver because it's already been decoded and is being sent as PCM, so "Multichannel" is displayed instead. The bit rate's not as high as I expected, but is the highest I've seen (7.0 Mbps)
