What is the best HTIB that will provide lossless audio with the PS3 (which doesn't do its own decoding)?

Question

I was checking out some nice HTIB's and just before I was about to buy I realized that none of them will provide lossless audio with the PS3 blueray player, anybody know which will? If possible around $500. Any tips will help thanks.

Answer 1

actually the ps3 is the only blu-ray player which is incapable of providing true lossless audio from movie soundtracks. this was covered a few months ago in home theater magazine and is why they did not pick it as the best blu player. any system which accepts optical input would work just fine. hdmi is better but remember that most receivers do not handle the audio portion (hdmi 1.3) just yet, they simply serve as video passthroughs.