My reciever is not detecting DOLBY HD?

Question

my reciever is not detecing Dolby HD from my PS3 both say they can read this audio format am i missing somthing here?Amd yes i am hooked up with A/V HDMI cables (1.3hdmi) my tuner is a yamaha RX-861

Answer 1

The RX-861 can not decode Dolby Digital Plus, Dobly Digital TrueHD, nor DtsHD.  But HD-DVD players can decode the newer audio formats (it was required by the HD-DVD spec) and stream them to the RX-861 as PCM.  

However, Blue-Ray spec did not make this mandatory, so your PS-3 may not decode the higher formats.

Answer 2

The ps3 cant bitstream dolby hd or dts hd yet.

Answer 3

I have a similar issue with Onkyo.  I found that if I use DIRECT/MULTICHANNEL (AND PURE AUDIO), I get the DOLBYHD/DTSHD sound, but the receiver does not acknowledge that.

Try to use similar settings.

Answer 4

the ps3 does decode true hd but can only send it lpcm not bitstream. The ps3 cannot sent it analog multi channel out either. But i have heard of some receivers not reconizing when it is in fact decoding it