Glad to hear your receiver going to work for you. I'm kind'a in the same boat with my Yamaha receiver, no True HD, etc. But I'm getting a new Panasonic Blu-ray that will do all the work for me and my receiver will basically kick out the signals to my speakers.
And here all along I had been thinking the RCA jacks that litter the back pannel of my Denon were the obsolete items and the digital imputs were current! =O
When it comes to audio, everything ends up analog in a digital world eventually. It's just deciding at what stage it's going to happen.