Temp temp.....poison poison....

Most HTiB speakers rated at 4ohm...pls check and I don't think the V465 can drive 4ohm speakers.....however if you don't play at loud volume, maybe it should be ok.

DD = 448kbps
dts = 640kbps
TrueHD = 2-6Mbps
DTS-MA = 2-6Mbps

if no diff, what is inside those additional data?

Guess is the key word.....he never had actually listen to any of it....
Unless you are really really in-sensitive towards sound or have hearing problem, I believe you can hear the different, heck, even my wife can hear the different
To me, BD improvement on sound is larger than the PQ, an excellence bit rate SD DVD upscale using a very good scaler like ABT, Reon or DCDi, can be very closed (like 75%) of BD PQ, but if you are very satisfy with Astro SD quality than no point to even try 720p mkv PQ

the size for TF2 is 44GB...u only have 50% of it, not almost

Try open up can clean the contact point or dust inside the AVR 1st....it might just becos of the dirty dust

your DVD player dont't have optical or coaxial out?

should be:-

DVDP (component & optical/coaxial(digital out) --> RXV465 --> HDMI --> LCD TV (remember to set the DVDP at audio out using digital/bitstream)

This will give you the optimum usage, or if your DVDP have HDMI out, just use that to connect to the RXV465 and HDMI out to TV

This post has been edited by mpyw: Jul 8 2010, 12:51 PM

best just use direct connection....no need another connector...only a bit inconvenient

if you have normal easy to drive speakers and not listening to very loud volume (like over 90db) for a long period...should work just fine

if u plug in to a video port --> it carry video signal
if u plug in to an audio port --> it carry audio signal

75ohm cable can do both, when I was young & broke last time, I use the Red/White/yellow cable as my RGB component cable and another Red/white as audio and the yellow one as my sub woofer cable....works fine

you can turn off the scalling...select HDMI Through....but I don't think the V471 can do scalling to HDMI input.

Yamaha just announced launching of the new models from A720 - A3020 with 4k upscalling, airplay and new YPAO features and 3D as well.

Most (if not all) of the current audio mixes for DVD or bluray is based on either Dolby Digital 5.1 or DTS (for Digital Theater Sound) lossy (or compressed mixed), and for bluray mostly DTS-HD or Dolby TrueHD

Unless all of your movie is encoded in PCM 5.1 or LPCM 5.1, you are using the surround audio setup, and THX is not an audio standard.

those downloaded mkv or whatsoever format still comes with AC3 5.1 (Dolby Digital 5.1)
no streaming or downloaded material will use PCM/LPCM as it take up huge bandwidth, so you will still be using a very standard surround mixes by either Dolby/DTS

also, for someone mentioning Dolby Atmos / DTS:X / AURO 3D as additional discrete audio channel, that is incorrect, as the new format is mixed using an object based mix and the sound output will depend on how many speakers you installed in your system and not like if you don't have rear speakers then the rear sound will go missing

Try go to those showroom with Atmos setup and listen by yourself then only decide if you can here the different.

5007? Marantz?

If it is Marantz SR-5007, connect the rear speaker output and place the spk in ceiling firing down does not make atmos run as it need a newer AVR which can decode the extra layer of atmos info that being added to the primary Dolby TrueHD layer

If you just use the rear spk out to firing down from ceiling, you are merely let the audio of the rear surround to sound from the ceiling, which will be weirdly sound