Mark you sure go out of your way to be a butt head. Why would I mention coaxial at all if it wasn't part of the original question. I made no such implication. I realize now you are reading comprehension challenged, I'll try to be more tolerant of you in the future. The thing is you tried to make a stink about nothing and it blew up in your face now you are grasping at whatever you can make up to save face.

This should help, I hope you can understand it. Page 2 describes the core signal provided to optical or coax, and page 3 will explain even if a player output a raw bitstream of a hi rez audio signal it will depend on the movie to allow this to happen and the movies that will could be rare. So if Dolby is correct it is a safer bet to stick with the PCM via HDMI or MC analog for the HD audio signals.

http://www.dolby.com/consumer/techno...HD_avrs_1.html