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Re:Raspberry Pi 3 on Sale by antocv on Monday February 29, 2016 @03:12AM (#11194199)
Doesnt HDMI audio provide as good quality as any i2s connector? Or do you just need i2s for interfacing with your own microcontrollers/older recieviers, which dont necessarily have hdmi (and thus copyright compliance, making it more expensive)?

Last I read Raspberry Pi should allow for 5.1 hdmi passthrough or at least DTS.

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Re:Raspberry Pi 3 on Sale by mschuster91 on Monday February 29, 2016 @03:16AM (#11194215)
HDMI audio requires an extractor (so one more wall wart + device), and I'm using a Pi2 for home cinema. And I'm one of those with an "old" HiFi setup without digital input, just analog.
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Re:Raspberry Pi 3 on Sale by nl on Monday February 29, 2016 @04:27AM (#11194433)
So use an old RPi? Or a Model B?
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Re:Raspberry Pi 3 on Sale by newman314 on Monday February 29, 2016 @11:49AM (#11196489)
It does and that's how I have it set up. RPi source to receiver over HDMI. DTS 1080p movies playback beautifully with a slight overclock (on an original B).
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Re:Raspberry Pi 3 on Sale by theli on Monday February 29, 2016 @07:17PM (#11199862)
RPI's hardware doesn't support DTS-HD MA or Dolby TrueHD passthrough though :(
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