Dave,
The analogue outputs aren’t an option. The BD 30 will not decode DD:HD or DTS:Master. It sends those as bitstream only. This player, as well as the Panasonic BD 10, and the Denon 2500 (which shares a Panasonic Chip) all have this low LFE bug with play back of selectable, uncompressed PCM audio tracks on BR disks. Another problem with using analogue…. even if this player decoded all the formats, is that it would be limited to 5.1. There’s several 6 and 7.1 disks out now.
Thanks for the helpful post though……
The real problem is that Panasonic just needs to address this. It’s broke. Unfortunately, it would appear that Panasonic is denying it’s a problem, whereas Denon admits it and has promised to fix it.
I still have my PS3 that plays back PCM audio perfectly. I’ll keep using that for those particular disks and the Panasonic for the DTS:Master disks.
