Flo_Evans said:
Dolby TrueHD isn't uncompressed it's just compressed losslessly, which means when you uncompress it you arent missing anything was originally in the signal - for example, MP3 is lossy, so when you, for instance, use Winamp to write an MP3 to a .WAV file to burn it to an audio CD you aren't getting the same audio information you had before, it was lost in the compression process.
It's hard to tell from the article how the multichannel analog works, all that means is you can pass the final analog signal to your receiver if it supports discrete analog inputs for passing to your speakers. This, I'd imagine, requires your player to support discrete speaker outputs as well as being able to decode the signal itself. Otherwise, your reciever must support Dolby TrueHD and the digital stream is passed digitally through the HDMI connector. I believe the audio specs all call for backwards compatibility streams for use with older 5.1 DD or DTS equipment using traditional RCA or optical digital audio connections.
over optical like a CD is.
