The good folks at Home Theater Forum have posted their first impressions of Dolby’s new Advanced 96k up-sampling of the Dolby TrueHD codec. Without the need for additional hardware, consumers get better sound. If your audio setup plays Dolby TrueHD, you will be able to benefit once the recordings are on the market.

I have an aging Denon AVR-5803 AV Receiver, and the aforementioned Oppo BDP-93 3D blu-ray player. While the Denon does not have HDMI, it does have two sets of discrete 7.1 inputs. The Oppo has discrete 7.1 outputs, and handles in-player Dolby TrueHD decoding (and also DTS-HD Master Audio, among others). So I am ready for Advanced 96k up-sampling.