Sony BDP Players...question.

[pearsall001]

A good friend of mine has an older Denon AVR (non-HDMI) & asked me to find out the following. Does either of those two players pass DTS HD Master Audio (he specified that it has to be Master Audio) thru a 5.1 analog connection. He knows that HDMI will pass it on but he's not sure about the 5.1 analog. Any info would be appreciated.

 

[Bugbitten]

The Sony BDP-S550 is what he needs.

I use 5.1 analog also.

 

[billy p]

A good friend of mine has an older Denon AVR (non-HDMI) & asked me to find out the following. Does either of those two players pass DTS HD Master Audio (he specified that it has to be Master Audio) thru a 5.1 analog connection. He knows that HDMI will pass it on but he's not sure about the 5.1 analog. Any info would be appreciated.

I'm using a older non HDMI denon receiver via analog and I'm amazed with the SQ of uncompressed audio. Not all players out there are capable in outputting DTS HDMA even with HDMI and of the current BR players the two that come to mind are the Sony s550 or the Panny bd55 and both pass it with analog or HDMI. I had both over the past weekend and opted for the Panny and IMO I would recommend either. However the one drawback I've came across using analog M/C from the player is that it doesn't allow for the receiver to do the calibrations and speaker set up and that kind of leaves me wondering what if?

Just my 2 cents, Bill

 

[rnatalli]

The Panny bd55 should work also.

Oops... Billy beat me to it!