Anyone using a Blu-Ray player as a transport?

Knownothing, I don't think it really matters in that system if you know what I mean.

Jane -- I did some further checking, which seems to confirm my earlier post.

On page 17 (pdf page 20) of the manual for Marantz' $6000 UD9004 Blu-Ray/SACD player: "SACD's DSD signal cannot be output. Also, during CD layer playback, 44.1kHz/16-bit Linear PCM is output."

On page 57 (pdf page 63) of the manual for the Oppo BDP-83: "The player does not up-sample audio to higher sample rates."

This manual for a Philips player mentions down-sampling on page 36, but there is no mention anywhere of upsampling.

Re faster reading of cd's in Blu-Ray players, even if the disks were read faster internally, I don't think that would be advantageous in any way if the output data rate is the same. And if the implementation is not good, faster reading could conceivably increase the rate of uncorrectable errors.

Hope that helps,
-- Al

Almarg, That is very helpful. Though I still wander if due to the potential faster read of the data that there would be less potential for read error.
Is anyone currently using a Blu-Ray as a transport that would like to offer an opinion on the sound vs. their old transport?