Like JJMP50, I'm looking for a BDP with analog outs. I already have an Oppo 980-HD, but that only plays DVD. The important thing about my Oppo player is that it gives me the ability to play my growing collection of SACDs and DVD-A music.
I digress. I'm definitely interested in the analog outs as I have a legacy AVR (it's hard to believe that a 3-year old receiver is considered "legacy," but ok). My Pioneer Elite AVR supports HDMI 1.2, so I'm presuming that if I want to get the best possible audio and video performance out of this BDP, then I should:
- Use the Toshiba's onboard DACs and its analog outs to my AVR
- Use the HDMI cable to send the video signal directly over to my television
If that's a correct assumption, here's a question I have about the analog outputs: while my AVR is 7.1 capable, I'm only pushing 5 speakers with it. I have it configured though to bi-amp my front left and right speakers. I presume that because I'm driving only 5 speakers, that I only need five interconnects to get the analog out from the BDP to my AVR (ASAP or PDQ - sorry, couldn't resist).
Oh, one other thing... since you didn't rate the Toshiba's bass management very well, would it be best to set up all the speakers as large on the BDP and then use the bass management on my AVR to actually determine what parts of the audio signal get sent to each speaker?
Could be a good machine for my application.