Klas: interesting post....45 items back and forth...just managed to get halfway through... Probably answer is no; but give it a shot anyway is it possible, as a work-around, to do the true HD decoding in the PS3 and output in a 1.3HDMI cable; into a HDMI 1.3 converter to SPDIF that you feed into the BS3? Would the BS3 then know what to do with the audio

Razlaw: 355f: soundproof: I have to laugh, can you all imagine what a nightmare it's been for regular customers to make sense of the new high-definition formats? Where I live, DVD-players are still outselling BR by a factor of 100:1 - and I'm not surprised. No one is making money on BR. Actually, when HDMI first became available I had a meeting

martin01: Moxxey, This is the second time you dont read what I am writing. Please read before you reply!!! What I said is that BS3 may be upgradable as a MarkII. But no one of us at this forum know IF we can upgrade those BS3 that we own today. If B&O make a "retrofit"-bluray to the BV7-40 MarkIII then B&O has to upgrade the BS3 inside

moxxey: martin01: Hi 355f, What I understand, it IS possible to upgrade BS3. Maybe it will be a MarkII-version. No, you've mis-read his post, too. He means that *his* already purchased BS3 won't be upgradable. He's a bit annoyed (and I share this grief) that he's paid £5K for a product that can't be upgraded to support True

soundproof: I have to laugh, can you all imagine what a nightmare it's been for regular customers to make sense of the new high-definition formats? Where I live, DVD-players are still outselling BR by a factor of 100:1 - and I'm not surprised. No one is making money on BR. Actually, when HDMI first became available I had a meeting with a manufacturer

Razlaw: So, you disagree with the articles I cited that specifically say 1.3 in the amplifier is NOT needed and specifically say that all that is needed is a receiver that accepts HDMI 1.1 as an input? That is where my confusion is, you say 1.3 is required, the cited sources say 1.3 is NOT required, NOT required in the source, NOT required in the cable

Razlaw: The reason I am confused is you say that 1.3 is required whereas the articles I have found say it is not. The most recent one I posted appears to be an official HDMI page as it contains information for manufacturers on things such as trademarks etc. That page specifically says 1.3 is NOT needed for Dolby TrueHD or DTS-HD Master, contrary to

Razlaw: Thanks for the compliment on finding good articles. Here is another one I found. This one specifically says that both Dolby trueHD and DTS Master HD work with HDMI 1.1, It even has a specific comment that 1.3 is not needed. I am getting very confused. Glad that the sound from our BV7 with BL9s and 1s is wonderful, whatever it is I am hearing

Razlaw: still confused.....decoding can be done by either the player, or the receiver, it does not need to be done by both, does it? This article seems to say decoding in the player is all that is needed and thus an old receiver can be used. It says in fact decoding in the player is better than in the receiver as it allows for sound from extra features

Razlaw: This is way too technical and complex for me. However, these pages seem to say that if the decoding is done in the Blu-Ray player, rather than in the receiver, any HDMI cable can be used to transmit uncompressed audio and that older receivers can thus be used, even if the receiver does not itself support the format. I am not expressing an opinion