mattkhan
Distinguished Member
I know but I'm not sure BUCKSTER and MATTKHAN are fully understanding the difference based on their posts above. Apologies if I am mistaken guys
Thoroughly confused
You appear to be saying that processors don't have the ability to downmix 7.1 to 5.1 but certain players do.
In particular I understand you to be saying the oppo DTS decoder can basically transcode a dts hd ma 7.1 track to a 5.1 dts HD ma track and then send that over bitstream when told to do so. However this feature is not one that exists in a 5.1 receiver so it falls back to the core stream only.
If this is true, it seems completely bizarre behaviour (but then HD audio processing is not an area where common sense regularly applies) given that the DTS codec appears capable of doing that mix as a standard feature and downmixing (in player or processor) is also a standard feature. Therefore I have no idea why this is an issue for the 310, why don't they just take the 7.1 stream in decode it and down mix it? This is surely what the 510 (or other 7.1 processor) will do when it has only 5 channels connected won't it?