Can someone explain to me what is the point of "HDMI pass-through"? Under what circumstances would I want use an HDMI cable to plug my HDDVD player to the a/v receiver, and route another HDMI cable back to the TV? I currently plug the HDMI cable from my HDDVD player directly into the TV, and plug a separate (digitial) audio cable into the a/v receiver. Works great. If the a/v receiver would accept high-def audio through the HDMI cable then I could understand routing video through the a/v receiver too (since the HDMI cable carries both), but then it wouldn't be "HDMI pass-through" anymore. I thought the whole point of HDMI was to pass both audio and video (and add the security stuff), but when using it as a "pass-through" then it's only being used for video. In the a/v receiver described above, what is the intended mechanism for getting high-def audio from the HDDVD player to the a/v receiver?
I'm pretty sure the pass-through just refers to the fact that it doesn't do any up-conversion on lower resolutions and that it is able to "handle 1080p". The digital signal for sound is still fed to the receiver. It would also be helpful for people that only have one hdmi input on their TV.
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Can someone explain to me what is the point of "HDMI pass-through"? Under what circumstances would I want use an HDMI cable to plug my HDDVD player to the a/v receiver, and route another HDMI cable back to the TV? I currently plug the HDMI cable from my HDDVD player directly into the TV, and plug a separate (digitial) audio cable into the a/v receiver. Works great. If the a/v receiver would accept high-def audio through the HDMI cable then I could understand routing video through the a/v receiver too (since the HDMI cable carries both), but then it wouldn't be "HDMI pass-through" anymore. I thought the whole point of HDMI was to pass both audio and video (and add the security stuff), but when using it as a "pass-through" then it's only being used for video. In the a/v receiver described above, what is the intended mechanism for getting high-def audio from the HDDVD player to the a/v receiver?
I'm pretty sure the pass-through just refers to the fact that it doesn't do any up-conversion on lower resolutions and that it is able to "handle 1080p". The digital signal for sound is still fed to the receiver. It would also be helpful for people that only have one hdmi input on their TV.