On Sat, 02 Jan 2010 19:19:43 +0000, Peter wrote:
On Sat, 02 Jan 2010 18:03:00 GMT, smb wrote:

Is it worth me ensuring that my AV receiver also does the
older Dolby Surround?

Yes. Whether or not it's relevant for broadcast TV, it's likely to be
useful for some DVDs. Not all of these have DD or DTS soundtracks.
Some (especially boxed sets of TV series) have only stereo soundtracks
with surround information matrixed in.

I will check the models I'm looking at to see what they do. So far, I've
only been making sure they do Dolby Digital and the HD stuff for Blu-ray
discs. My plan is to upgrade my DVD player to Blu-ray at some point in
the (hopefully near) future.

Thanks for you help.