When Wes Philips (of Stereophile) watched a demo of an HD DVD with Dolby TrueHD soundtrack transmitted over HDMI 1.3 to a new Onkyo RECEIVER, he said it was the best surround sound he had ever heard.
YMMV, I suppose.
OTOH, you may get pretty close to that with uncompressed PCM over HDMI 1.1.
YMMV, I suppose.
OTOH, you may get pretty close to that with uncompressed PCM over HDMI 1.1.