I believe that a current AVR will take the multi channels of HD audio and output it into whatever channels you have available, in your case 2.0. I'm not sure if you'd get the same results using a blu-ray player that could output multiple analog discrete channels and only use two of them. Maybe the players are smart enough to combine the total signals into less channels.
Two Channel -- DTS Master - HD Audio?
Have a two-channel system. Just put a hdtv in the mix. Feeding toslink from ps3 blu ray to two-channel dac. Understand this will not provide the hd audio. Questions, which I can't seem to find the answer to, is it possible to even get lossless audio from blu ray to two-channel system? Do I need a blu ray player that decodes and then use two-channel analog out to get this? Do blu ray players do this? Is something lost taking the multi-channel high rez audio down to two-channel in the since of whether it's still lossless (not benefits of two-channel v. multi-channel)? Worth the money to get the lossless, and if so, cheapest sonically sound route to go? Thanks for any information you can provide.
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