Sips, One of my favorite things about the new HD formats is the True HD sound. I'm not sure if your Blu Ray player decodes the the new formats or not, if it does then you will just need a receiver that accepts PCM via HDMI. If not then you will have to buy a receiver that will decode the sound formats provided your player will send the sound to the receiver via bitstream. Imo if you're gonna go HD go all the way, sound and picture, just my two cents.

A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing.