Title: "HDMI passthrough is a good thing"...SAY WHAT???
Review: picture a plasma display. or lcd. or projection...it doesn't matter. Now, you have a Blu-Ray player, HD-DVD player, DirectTV HD receiver - it doesn't matter. These are all generating HD contect to be displayed by an HD display . Throw in the DG800 in the middle, and you've LOST your 6:1 sound - pass-through means that any HDMI content will NOT be processed by your home theatre receiver...and this is a GOOD thing? Gimmee a break. And don't throw out "you can use optical"...sure you can...but you drop back to 5:1 DD. TOTALLY defeats 1/2 the value and purpose of HDMI. Bottom line, Sony threw in HDMI so that they could say that they have it. They'll come back in a latter rev of this receiver and actually implement it. Until then, this receiver is a joke, as is any receiver that does HDMI pass-through.
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