Dont smile to much

By the looks of it all they have done is add a stream pass through for the audio and not allow internal decoding at full quality..... Thats just like sticking "Dolby Digital Compatable" on a cheap DVD player with stereo out jacks and an optical connection and then advertising it as fully supporting 5.1 dolby playback.

So, no chance of it being output to 192KHz 24 bit analog ports on a PC and most people will need to get an HDMI amp with support for DTS-HD Master to play back the audio track as it was supposed to be.

The receiver part of the equation doesn't bother me as much as the 1.3a requirement on the PC. As far as I understand it, it'll ONLY support equipment from MFG's that they've worked with directly in order to make sure their drivers support the Protected Audio Path nonsense they're adding in the next version. So, it's not like you pick any old sound card or video card with HDMI support, hook it up to your HDMI enabled receiver, and enjoy audio nirvana. This PAP nonsense really sucks as far as I can see. While I'm likely to upgrade my receiver soon to get HDMI audio, I'm not keen on the idea of Cyberlink choosing what HDMI pc solutions I can buy if I want to use it with PowerDVD for unmolested audio playback.