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Originally Posted by dugpa
The transport is intended for people who have one of the higher end denon receivers and need no internal decoding of the audio formats. And yes, it does have to conform to the 1.1 spec and will. Even though I'll probably get one of the Denon receivers, I'll still probably go for the DVD-BD3800 myself.
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But those two things conflict. For BD profile 1.1 it is mandatory that the player have an internal standard Dolby Digital/DTS decoder for the core of PiP streams. And, if the signal is sent bitstream with no decoding in the player, then you lose the sound of IME. So without any internal decoding of audio at all, many of the Profile 1.1 features will be worthless. Looking at all the press materials, this really does look like a profile 1.0 player. Where do you see evidence that it is not?
Calling the player a "transport" is a misnomer simply because it is doing more than that on the video side no matter what, and also more than that on the audio side if it is BD profile 1.1 compliant.