Sony HTD-DW995 Full HD 1080p Component Home Theater System Review
October 14th, 2009
Sony HTD-DW995 Full HD 1080p Component Home Theater System Review from Brian Schmidt. Very functional. Took a little getting used to. Needs volume setting high, This unit does handle digital audio signals via HDMI. This means you don’t have to have a seperate optical or coax cable for audio. But you won’t get anything more than the DTS and Dolby Digital 5.1 that you would normally get through the optical input. If you have a HD DVD player and are expecting this system to take advantage of Dolby Digital Plus or Dolby TrueHD audio, forget it. The HD DVD players decode these new audio formats and sends them out as multi-channel linear PCM. But this Sony receiver can only handle 2 channel linear PCM. Not the 5.1 channels you need for surround sound. So there’s no technical advantage over the optical or coax connections that have been around for years.
You may not care and you may find this to be a great system at a great price. But I wanted to clarify this point since Sony’s documentation does not spell it out.
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