[quote user="355f"]if you feel you are listening to it god for you! it will save the costs of upgrading![/quote] Why upgrade? 1. this is not possible! 2. and I do not need to! 355f, if I am wrong, I have no problem to admit this, but I need arguments? What in your opinion are the containers DD TrueHD, DTS HD MA and/or MPL (same question as

hi 355f for somebody opposing this, your arguments are short of content for somebody manufacturing bs3 you seem not to happy with your work because you do not identify yourself with the products you are making and now a conspirancy theory? Even if you would have it right, I'm very satisfied with the capabilities of the BS3 and the way I can listen

[quote user="Seanie"] thanks for all your interesting replies and i will go and buy the BD60 as i need a player anyway. edit: Also i have conculeded that the BS3 is a pile of Junk that cannot be upgraded and it just a old fasioned AMP. No upgrade for HDMI 1.3 As normal were expected to wiat and spend another 9K on a BV Not in this lifetime

hi 355f I am curious? Could you explain what in your opinion a DDTrueHD or DTS HD or MLP audio file contains?

hi, you have a point, but bottom line: one can listen to "the real thing" with the BV7-40 (mkIII / mkIV) & BS3 if one has a capable player which can decode these formats! And for the moment, to have ALL the hi-res formats one has to connect an external player (with the right decoder!).

355f Situation 1: player pass through DD TrueHD as bitstream to a soundprocessor (one needs HDMI v1.3 in this situation) The DD TrueHD is in original format send over to the decoder in the soundprocessor. This decoder transforms it to multichannel PCM. This format is used by the soundprocessor to reproduce. see http://www.dts.com/Consumer_Electronics

[quote user="Seanie"] [quote user="Carolpa"] The BD35 can output 7.1 multich PCM through HDMI and I looked at Blu-ray.com, if their specs are correct the BD60 should also [/quote] thanks for the reply so now i just need to find out if the BD60 does infact output 7.1 PCM over HDMI as they BD35 does as the spec does not show this on

true it is NOT upgradable to HDMI v1.3! But NOT true that you need HDMI v1.3 I bought especial the BS3 when it was introduced because of this feature. That way I could listen to DVD Audio HDMI connected to the BS3 (the player decoded the signal; outputs multichannel PCM; the input signal on my Beosystem 3 reads Multichannel PCM). The same with multichannel

see http://www2.panasonic.com/consumer-electronics/shop/Video/Blu-ray-Disc-Players/model.DMP-BD60K.S_11002_7000000000000005702#tabsection

355f has it wrong! Most people think they MUST have HDMI 1.3 to listen to DDTHrueHD or DTS HD MA. You need HDMI 1.3 to bitstream these formats from a player to a soundprocessor. But if the player decodes the formats (DD TrueHD or DTS HD MA) and output them as multichannel PCM over HDMI (version 1.1 and higher have these capability) than your soundprocessor