When i wanted to buy the rs7, the shopkeeper inform me that the the old batch or in shop stock of srs3sw (the sub) are being recalled because the sub have high probability of "blown up", so the mid 2009 rollout of the sub have fixed the issues.

I didn't realise he's from Ipoh 

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Added on December 3, 2009, 8:18 am
I think computer HDMI a bit more tricky to channel sound from it. Your Laptop HDMI connection could be only meant for Video, not sure. Check your details about your Laptop specs. Or are you just using one of those DVI to HDMI converters?

hey kiran,
not sure if you have check this link. This maybe helpful to u.

http://esupport.sony.com/US/perl/support-i...ate=&info_id=24

Those HDMI Media players (like AC Ryan, WD TV Live etc) wont have any problems with normal 5.1 sound. Only HD audio have problem and currently being fixed.

You said HDMI indicator in AVR  blinks, shouldn't it be constantly on instead of blinking. There is an option in the Pioneer that can set HDMI audio to passthrough (bypass the Amp) maybe you could check that it is not set to passthrough.

Could ask Soulquarinz about that, he is using 819 and AC Ryan POHD.

In the meantime , did you look for updated drivers at Sony Website?

PC Fair price someone mentioned RM560/- in AC Ryan POHD thread).

Everyone  is still waiting  for Dolby True-HD and DTS-MA bitstream . Downmix (in above mentioned case)  means convert the source to stereo. Passthrough means bitstream to the AVR to decode. Note that this is only regular Dolby and DTS passthrough not HD Audio.

Currently when you select a True-HD source you will get a 'Unknown Audio Format' error. If you select DTS-MA you will only get the Core DTS 5.1 and not the HD format. This is more applicable to m2ts files which are direct rips  from Blu-ray.

For MKV files (can be compressed from blu-ray rips as well) they can't support True-HD and DTS-MA so they include only the converted normal DD or DTS 5.1 sound. You shouldn't have problem getting normal 5.1 sound from these files on your 819.