Trey, welcome. If just about the only new feature that you're interested in is TrueHD, etc., capability, then that's easily had these days for around $300-$400. The Onkyo 606 that Steve suggests should be excellent. Since you're going to use the PS3 for Blu-rays, it will decode those formats and output the PCM over HDMI. Your 659 doesn't have the HDMI capability and the PS3 doesn't have multi-channel analog outputs to feed the 659, so you can't use new formats, although the DD 5.1 track on Blu-rays can be excellent and essentially indistinguishable from TrueHD(see
Home Entertainment Magazine tests ).
Mark(doormat), sure in general a player, including the PS3, does just as good a job in decoding those formats as a receiver would do, and it isn't necessary to have a receiver with the decoding capability. As was mentioned above, though, Trey's 659 doesn't have an HDMI input which would receive and process the decoded audio signals from his PS3. So, he would need that input, but not necessarily the decoding capability in the new receiver.
