New Processors passing HD Sound?

The Link is http://esupport.sony.com/US/perl/model-documents.pl?mdl=BDPS2000ES&LOC=3

Check out Page 12 of the operating instructions at http://esupport.sony.com/US/perl/model-documents.pl?mdl=BDPS2000ES&LOC=3
You'll see that the player's 5.1 analog outputs DO NOT put out Dolby TrueHD, Dolby Digital Plus, or DTS-HD. The only way uncompressed digital surround schemes are outputted is via the HDMI cable, and the A/V receiver has to be able to decode DD+, TrueHD, and/or DTS-HD.

Now it makes me wonder if the 5.1 analog outputs on HD DVD players are downconverted to DTS as well. That's what HD DVD does over the SP/DIF link, whether TOS or coax.

Actually, I do not really see anything on p12 that is definitive either way. Also, p48 is equally amibiguous about what you get from the 5.1 analog jacks.

First of all, this is typical of most BRD and HD-DVD manuals since the number of variables and the non-standard terminology make accurate but simple descriptions almost impossible. I have 4 players and none of their manuals is completely clear (and they all have charts like p48).

Second, one cannot generalize about HD-DVD and/or BRD since individual players have unique feature sets. For example, I recently got an HD-DVD player, which on the manufacturer's website seemed identical in its audio features to another model, only to find that it did not do what I wanted while another model did.

The only reliable source is to find a hand's on review in print or on the web where an actual user tells you what the player does.

Kal

Can no one describe how these HD audio's differ from non HD audio ?

Is it just pulling the same ole thing from a new type of decoding system ?

Can no one describe how these HD audio's differ from non HD audio ?

The HD codecs are lossless, unlike the predecessors.

Is it just pulling the same ole thing from a new type of decoding system ?

Depends on the source. Some of the newer materials on HD are spectacularly good.

Kal