[mythtv-users] Looking for hardware recommendations

[Eric Sharkey]

On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 5:06 PM, Allen Edwards<allen.p.edwards at gmail.com> wrote:
> SPDIF passthrough is as good as it gets.

In a nutshell, no.

See, for example:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolby_TrueHD

Specifically the section on "Transport".  SPDIF just doesn't have the
bandwidth required for the maximum audio fidelity found on some BluRay
discs.

Eric