DTS-HD Master Audio

Does anyone know if you can still get DTS-HD Master Audio from the blu-ray player to the receiver using either coaxial single cable or optical single cable?

I wanted to hook up the player directly to the TV to get better picture quality. But for the DTS-HD Master Audio sound, I was thinking of using either coaxial single cable or optical single cable. I don't know if that can be done.

Any of you try that before?

Sorry. dts-HD MA, as well as Dolby THD, cannot be conveyed by optical or coax. Only HDMI or analog.

Kal

HDMI cables can be had pretty inexpensively and keep your cable count low. Your Sony can internally decode TrueHD, but not DTS-HD Master Audio. It can, however, *read* DTS-HD Master Audio and send the resulting PCM bitstream over HDMI to be decoded by an AV processor such as your Onkyo.

So connect your HDMI cable from the Blu-ray player to your Onkyo and let it do all the digital decoding. Then use a second HDMI cable to send the video on to your TV. Letting the Onkyo do the HDMI switching becomes more convenient as you add an HD cable or DVR box, and perhaps other HD sources such as over-the-air HD or a Playstation 3.

These lossless surround formats require too much bandwith to be sent over a coax or toslink digital connection.

I'm confused why BobReynolds says that there isn't an audio setup screen on Blu-Ray discs. Uhhh...yeah there is...at least on every disc I've ever played.