If you have a receiver that accepts LPCM over HDMI and the player decodes and will send the discrete 7.1 over HDMI then you are ok. CES will more than likely unvail new receivers with the builtin codecs and HDMI 1.3. However, as long as the recever you have now will accept LPCM then you are really ok.

If you aren't in current need, however, we should definitely see some receivers with HDMI 1.3 unveiled at CES this year.

Mitsubishi 62" DLP Pioneer VSX-84TXSi SA 8300HD XBOX 360 Axiom Epic 80.500 7.1 Speakers