Thanks for the responses. I do not yet own the player so I was not able to look at the owner's manual (did not check online, thanks for the tip). In a perfect world it would seem that the new-gen blue-ray players that advertise internal decoding should decode all the new surround formats and the older ones back to original DD/DTS and pass them out the analog 5.1 jacks to make them backward compatable, but the description on the Sony website was a little confusing in this regard. I've always used the processor built into my DVD player since my system's receiver will not decode DD/DTS but fortunately it has analog 5.1 inputs. No HDMI, either. Thanks Bigtee, looks like this player might just work ok in my sytem. -jz
Sony BDP-S2000ES Blue-ray question
Can anyone who is familiar with this model tell me if this player will output the highest resolution soundtracks found on some Blue-ray discs (Dolby True HD, DTS-HD) via the analog 5.1 outputs? The description on the Sony website says that the player will decode these soundtracks, but it also seems to indicate it will only pass the "decoded" signal via the digital HDMI out.. If true, it kinda' defeats the purpose of decoding in the player, doesn't it? -jz