OK, according to this AVS forum thread the 4650 will bitstream HD over HDMI (whatever that means).

In another interesting twist, it looks like some of the players will send the audio stream through the windows mixer (where it gets downsampled/mangled) rather than forwarding to the receiver for decoding. Sigh.

On the upside, If I really really want direct access to the HD formats FFDshow seems to be able to bypass AACS/DHCP and slysoft is working on an audio player.

What fun.

Fred

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