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Originally Posted by
Tulli 
It happens mostly with projectors (the Optoma is a case in point), with the AVR not repeating the EDID data properly.
Parsing problems are rarer now, but AMD has still a bug with bitstreaming and 5.1 AVRs (as explained in 1st. post).
Then there's the "hack" of TV's EDIDs to enable multichannel passthrough.
They're good for enabling 3D over an HDMI1.3 AVR (if you don't mind losing HD audio).
And finally, EDID overrides help sometimes with handshaking.
I think that's most of it ...

Thanks for taking the time to explain that to me. I've been sorta outta the loop so to speak with HTPCs etc for at least three years plus. So I guess it's a great way to defeat 2 chan EDID read thus causing only 2 chan xmit into FPD? I guess this would matter if you're then passing audio back outta the TV via SP/DIF and want AC3 etc bitstream...
Why not just use TOS/link or SP/DIF outta the motherboard into the AVR then? I guess if you had it that way and also a modern "internet" TV you would have to swap audio inputs on the AVR in order to hear sound from PC or Internet TV/widget abilities or even ATSC. If looped into TV via HDMI and backout via TOS/link into AVR I guess you then don't have to change audio inputs on AVR for TVs internet functions or PC functions. Also I guess the TV then can act as an HDMI audio switch into the older SP/DIF only AVR...
Interesting...
and a VERY CLEVER work around!