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Originally Posted by aos007 
I can confirm it is not bitstreaming the DTS-HD MA. My receiver lights are not turning on. I read the receiver manual and found it does have indicators for all those formats but they were not turning on when playing the track. As Sarcoptic said, the asus WILL play normal DTS instead - so you won't be without sound.
It's gotta be licensing issues - it must cost a good deal of money to have this capability. Or rather, to decode it. I would think it doesn't require a license to simply send raw data but it does if you want to decode it to LPCM and/or output on analog. Asus might have decided that uniform behaviour of the device is more important. What I mean is, the analog video and audio always work at the same time as digital, and your HDMI audio works whether you select raw or lpcm. Bitstreaming only these few HD formats would break that behaviour so perhaps that's the reason they removed it.
Still, that's not too bad. If you simply archive your BRs in original .m2ts or make an MKV out of it with the original DTS-HD MA, it will still play on o'play. Regular DTS still sounds excellent and you don't need to reencode anything. I haven't tried Dolby HD formats yet.
I can confirm it is not bitstreaming the DTS-HD MA. My receiver lights are not turning on. I read the receiver manual and found it does have indicators for all those formats but they were not turning on when playing the track. As Sarcoptic said, the asus WILL play normal DTS instead - so you won't be without sound.
It's gotta be licensing issues - it must cost a good deal of money to have this capability. Or rather, to decode it. I would think it doesn't require a license to simply send raw data but it does if you want to decode it to LPCM and/or output on analog. Asus might have decided that uniform behaviour of the device is more important. What I mean is, the analog video and audio always work at the same time as digital, and your HDMI audio works whether you select raw or lpcm. Bitstreaming only these few HD formats would break that behaviour so perhaps that's the reason they removed it.
Still, that's not too bad. If you simply archive your BRs in original .m2ts or make an MKV out of it with the original DTS-HD MA, it will still play on o'play. Regular DTS still sounds excellent and you don't need to reencode anything. I haven't tried Dolby HD formats yet.
if it is either passing raw or converting to lpcm like ps3 should work for me. But neither is not acceptable option! sorry!
