It's really long but it may change your view on the need of HDMI 1.3 to enjoy lossless audio.

http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=789994


It's been a while since I looked at this thread. I just took a quick look at it and it appears it has devolved into a shouting match but there is still a lot of good info here. While I own a 1.3 compliant receiver none of the players I own pass lossless audio via bitstream. They all do the decoding internally passing it via multi channel PCM hence I do not use or need the decoders within the receiver to enjoy lossless audio. YMMV


Edited by Neutrino (16/11/2007 04:21)
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