Blu Ray Player

First, can you tell us which AVR it is? Some advertise misleadingly and it is important to know if yours will decode these signals from its HDMI input.

Second, you will have no choice on the audio with any BR offering although you can read the fine print on the back of the box. It is what it is. Some have dtdHD MasterAudio, some have Dolby THD, some have both, some have neither. You can play any of them.

Third, if your AVR can decode the HD formats, the player can just bitstream them to the AVR. However, there is, sometimes an advantage to having a player that will decode them internally and send them, via HDMI, to the AVR as PCM signals. So, that gets us back to point #1..........

Kal

Hi Kal,

I have the Onkyo TX-NR905. You can take a look at the specs at:

http://www.onkyousa.com/model.cfm?m=TX-NR905&class=Receiver&p=i

This is a fairly potent machine, imho, and you should have no problems with any modern player that will bitstream or decode the HD codecs. I cannot make any specific recommendations for BR players as my knowledge is pretty much liimited to "universal" players that will also handle SACD/DVD-A and those may not be of interest to you.

My "least common denominator" recommendation these days is the Oppo BDP-83 but, for BluRay only, there are other options.

Kal