Re: Help putting playback system together, please.
Just remember that any current Blu-Ray player models have to use digital video for HD and because the next step in the Analog Sunset is at the end of this year and requires eliminating analog video outputs entirely, many current models do not have analog video outputs. So your projector may have to support HDMI.
Looking at the referenced manual all I see discussed is a two channel downmix, I did not see 3.1 specifically addressed. Not an area I follow that closely but from what I gather the digital surround formats do not specifically address a 3.0/3.1 downmix, typically addressing a stereo downmix, 5.1 and 7.1. Any downmixing of 5.1 or 7.1 to 3.1 is apparently up to the hardware manufacturer to implement.
How you select what is being displayed, the calculation basis, how well (or if) the room is modeled, etc. can provide very different results in EASE and since I have seen that abused, I don't put much faith in EASE results unless you know what they are showing. That being said, the fact the some modeling was performed says something and your listening results say a lot more.
