Jayanji - unfortunately I do not have such older recordings and Star Movies HD was always heavily butchered except for now (check the difference in sound now, despite AVL, its way superior than before and was excellent when it was passed through between 1st to 3rd week of December 2013).
Their reply is hilarious as none of the channels across the globe has True HD and DTS HD audio and there is NO WAY you can get those output through SPDIF (Optical/Coaxial SPDIF can output upto 1.5Mbps DTS/DTS ES 6.1 or 640Kbps DD/DD EX 6.1). So you can understand the level of understanding these nerds have! Only HDMI connection support upto 7.1 HD audio and SPDIF can only give 2.0 PCM/LPCM HD audio at max.
My current Marantz receiver can only display volume offset (which your Yamaha doesn't seem to be displaying
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Nevertheless, if we get the original, unadulterated DD audio on all these channels, we will get the best audio possible on these as broadcasted as even the highest bitrate DTS audio will only compromise it further due to lossy compression. Not to mention, wasted bandwidth and processing power at their broadcasting end as compared to the original bitrate passthrough.
I am taking this fight through the consumer court as I NEVER observed such issues on Dish HD (they had other volume and equalization issues though) and never thought these operators will be playing with audio especially on those channels with Dolby Digital audio which can be easily passed through by their decoders and encoders, UNTOUCHED!
