Making the Right Connections

To ensure the best possible high-definition experience from Dolby® TrueHD and Dolby Digital Plus, it is important to make the right connections between your player and your receiver. These guidelines will help you get the most from your equipment.

 

HDMI Input

• The best way to connect your player to your A/V receiver.
• Bass management and other postprocessing is fully executed in the A/V receiver.
• Enables full-bandwidth playback of Dolby Digital Plus and Dolby TrueHD signals decoded to PCM inside the player.
• HDMI™ 1.3 can transport Dolby Digital, Dolby Digital Plus, and Dolby TrueHD bitstreams (from players equipped with bitstream output capability) directly to A/V receivers equipped with Dolby Digital Plus and Dolby TrueHD decoding.

Mechanics: Simply connect the HDMI output on your Blu-ray Disc™ player to an HDMI input on your A/V receiver.

 

Six- or Eight-Channel Analog (External Input)

• Offers full-bandwidth playback of Dolby Digital Plus and Dolby TrueHD soundtracks decoded inside the player.

Note: If your A/V receiver does not provide bass management with analog input signals, be sure that your Blu-ray Disc player can itself perform bass management (refer to its instruction manual).

Mechanics: Using RCA-type audio cables, connect the external audio outputs on your Blu-ray Disc player to the external audio inputs on your A/V receiver.

 

Coaxial or Optical Digital Audio Input

• Enables connection to legacy Dolby Digital 5.1 receivers and HTIBs.
• Blu-ray Disc content encoded with a 640 kbps Dolby Digital bitstream provides an enhanced (better than DVD) playback audio experience through any Dolby Digital A/V receiver.

Mechanics: Using an optical or a coaxial digital audio cable, simply connect the digital output on your Blu-ray Disc player to the digital input on your A/V receiver.