Quote Originally Posted by Rich-n-Texas
Yes, it will "playback" DVD-A and HDCD, and even though the specs @ crutchfield don't show the 5.1 audio out RCA jacks, I do still have to use them correct?

Note: I have the uncanny ability to make things more confusing and complicated than they need to be, witnessed by markw's false mistake. It doesn't even have to be obvious.

OTOH, he's from North Jerrrsey, (I from SJ) so we can't be too sure anyway!
Rich...

If you take my advice from earlier you should be golden. I think that will solve the issue, however I wanted to at least offer one more piece that is important in some cases. My example in this case will be the DVD-A of Hotel California.

There are 4 possible ways to listen to this DVD-A. It has the following audio options:

DTS 5.1
Dolby Digital 2.0
Advanced Resolution Surround (MLP)
Advanced Resolution Stereo 2.0

Now, here's the thing...you are only given 2 options at a time, depending on if your player is set to DVD-VIdeo or DVD-Audio. You MUST on most machines tell the machine to play DVD-Video or DVD-Audio while the machine does NOT have anything in the tray, otherwise the option to change it is blocked off.

So, let's say you have it set for DVD-Audio, then the menu pops up and you can choose (in my examples case) either Advanced Resolution stereo or surround. In order to choose DTS or DD you have to stop the disc and go into the players setup and choose DVD-Video in order to get the digital audio choices (DD or DTS).

Not all DVD-A's are like this, oddly enough the outside of the Hotel California does not even mention that it has DTS, whereas the Fleetwood Mac DVD-A for SAY YOU WILL claims to have DTS, but actually does NOT, just in case you were considering picking up these titles.

On most DVD-A you are given all of the audio options from ONE menu and when you have your digital connection and analog connections ready to go than when you switch from digital to analog the only thing you should have to do is change your receiver from digital to analog, depending on what you are playing. Like I said before, you probably have a multi-channel button on your receiver for when you are playing SACD or DVD-A (MLP stuff).

I know that this sounds incredibly confusing and that is one reason why most people don't bother with DVD-A as it's a pain in the butt to get going and you also need to have on-screen stuff happening to you know what to select, SACD is much easier in my opinion.