Blu-ray Player question

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Hey all, hope someone can guide me here.

I want to buy this blu ray player. On Dionwired website it states it's audio output is stereo. On Samsung website it states it's audio decoding output is " 7.1Channel DTS Decoding Output" and also " 7.1Channel Dolby Decoding Output".

Now my problem is, I have a LG Home entertainment system currently, which speakers is still perfect, but the player/amp is not. So I need a new player/amp, which I hope this samsung is.

If I look at the product pictures, I can not really see if it has all the output jacks which is needed for a 5.1 speaker setup.

Any help?

Thanks
 
It has optical out for the 7.1.
 
Okay so I still need an amp too then. And from where I stand, there's where it becomes expensive. And to buy a dvd player which is only to play a disk now and then isn't an option.

Thanks guys
 
Dolby said:
What is your budget ?
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It's not really a matter of budget, I just dont think I like the idea of spending a huge amount on this. But on the other hand I dont like buying cheap, just to replace later, like with this player. I didn't have much when I bought it, but now I can stretch the budget.

Why, do you have a suggestion?
 
Rickster said:
You plug the Blu-Ray player into the TV via a HDMI cable, then you connect the home theatre system into the TV via a Optical cable.
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Be careful with this. To my horror I discovered that my Samsung 46F6800 TV converts any multichannel input to stereo before it gets to the HDMI or optical outputs. It's not a clean pass-through.

Either rely the HDMI from the blu-ray for the picture only and have a separate optical/hdmi/digital co-ax cable running from the blu-ray to your amp for sound -OR- use HDMI from Blu-ray to amp and then another HDMI from amp to TV (if the amp has a pass-through)
 
iamgigglz said:
Be careful with this. To my horror I discovered that my Samsung 46F6800 TV converts any multichannel input to stereo before it gets to the HDMI or optical outputs. It's not a clean pass-through.
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+1

Yea - I've heard the same.

And it's different makes and models, so tough to actually know beforehand before buying a set if you needed that
 
Remember that HD audio is not transmitted over optical but only HDMI
 
Surely HD audio is more marketing/gimmicky when it comes to a HTiB?
 
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