Hi Bill

I went thru the link L.J provided, and it does not mention anything about DTS-HD that we are talking about.

But even for DolbyTrueHD if analog output if full bandwidth, one still need HDMI 1.3 to take full advantage of it digitally. Here is an excerpt from the same link:

“Eventually, A/V receivers will have direct access to Dolby® Digital Plus or Dolby TrueHD bitstreams. We are working with the IEC and HDMI organizations to update data protocols to enable future versions of these high-bandwidth interfaces to carry these bitstreams. To decode these bitstreams, the A/V decoder will need to support the updated data protocols, as well as incorporate these new decoding algorithms”

Which mean one must have HDMI 1.3 to have direct access to these bitstreams as current HDMI 1.2 does not have enough bandwidth to carry lossless streams.

But either way, the original argument was about DTS-HD