More Xbox 360 Woes

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I recently picked up a new Sony STR-DG910 7.1 HDMI receiver. I was very excited that I could finally switch all of my HDMI enabled devices through a single unit. More so, I was excited that I could have my Xbox 360 Elite output 5.1 instead of oldschool DPL2.0. Unfortunately the HDMI on the 360 will /only/ output PCM2.0. If you want to have your games output in DD5.1, you'll need to use an optical cable along side the HDMI. Bulllllllshit. Please take note of the small Dolby Digital logo on the back. This just goes to show that MS could give a shit about the 360 consumer... How hard would it be to send bitstream over the HDMI when you're already encoding it for the Optical channel.... I don't get it.

I'm also having massive issues with HDCP handshaking with my 360. I may just go back to using component entirely. Especially since HDDVD is dead (here & here). ;)

C'mon Paramount! Throw down some Transformers on Blu-ray!