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Originally Posted by Jon Liu

MadB, can you find a link to that? I've heard rumors, but would like to read for myself.

Oldskool, HDMI 1.2 IS good, if they would process and pass something like Uncompressed PCM or the like. It's not necessarily the question of bandwidth because as of right now, they aren't even using the potential of HDMI 1.2 on the Xbox 360. People pass off 1.2 as being nothing compared to 1.3, but just isn't the case. My receiver accepts 1.2 and as the PS3 has been sending my receiver uncompressed PCM I've had no problem and see no problem with the bandwidth. Microsoft's decision to continue not supporting a higher bitrate than just simple 640kbps Dolby Digital is beyond me.

I know that they are going to be switching to conversion of all the higher resolution stuff to DTS 1.5MB core, but still... the HDMI is designed to pass much more than that! My Receiver has been receiving 4MB and 6MB uncompressed PCM via the PS3's HDMI for some time now, so I believe that the 360 SHOULD do that as well!

I am happy I finally have HDMI on my 360 though, since I've found it to be a sufficient improvement already. I only gripe about the minor things that most people won't even care about now or even in the future of the Xbox 360.

While I had the possibility of passing the 1080p signal to my TV via VGA all this time, I just heard too many horror stories of how it didn't work properly, so I am glad that the HDMI solution has come to the market and seems to eliminate a lot of those problems for people who want 1080p.

I thought I read that there is a hardware limitation to the 360 that doesn't allow it to transfer the 6 channel pcm. It was designed years ago and din't have that in mind. They would need to have a redesigned motherboard to be able to pass the mutichannel pcm. if I remember correctly the 360 doesn't have the bandwidth to pass the mutichannel pcm. I think it was AMIRM that gave this info over at AVS.

Originally Posted by amirm from AVS

Yes, HDMI 1.2 allows uncompressed PCM. But the 360 data path to that bridge is not wide enough to support it.

HDMI will work with your new receiver by the way. You will be able to select DTS at 1.5 mbit/sec which should sound pretty good although no better than optical out.