Originally Posted by luvsoccer

Sorry - now I am more confused than ever. While my Marantz does have 7.1 analog audio input, I have never used it. I have always been pleased with the digital audio as fed by TiVo for HD broadcasts and DVD for upconverting standard DVDs. Moving to BluRay, I had not even considered worrying about HD audio, as the Marantz does not have an HDMI. While I have $2K invested in my home theater system, I did not think that the uncompressed HD audio available from BD discs would provide a worthwhile improvement over the digital codecs fed via digital input - such as DTS, DTS-Neo6,DTS-ES,DTS-96/24,Dolby Digital...My 2004-era Marantz supports those. It seems like moving backwards to feed Analog 7.1 from a BD player to my Marantz than staying with the "more modern" Digital Codecs which the Marantz was really designed to leverage. The marketing material for the BD80 even says "...for older receivers, 7.1 analog audio is available." That's my confusion.

Another point of confusion - assuming I stay with the BD60 order and feed BD audio through the digital optical with digital codecs - will I have a subwoofer boost requirement, or is that only with the BD80 feeding uncompressed HD audio through the analog 7.1?

Geesh - feel like I need to go get an EE degree!