Without getting into things like HDMI compatability issues,the main point that i was trying to make was that these new recievers are not necessary when the players are perfectly capable of doing the decoding.There is no advantage to having a reciever doing the decoding and in the case of HD-DVD the interactive features require onboard decoding,use a reciever to decode and this feature does not work.After all thousands of people are enjoying the new audio formats from their high def players and none of them have these new recievers.

bill