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Although I have read that the PQ on the first 2 Pirates of the Caribbean Blu-ray discs is better, I still found it to be very good. There was lots of detail and the colors looked accurate. The surround sound quality was excellent.

While the first 2 movies may have been better, I still enjoyed this one. However, it may have benefited from some editing as it is rather long ... 2 hour 49 minutes.

Another movie that if you watch through all the credits you will get a final scene to the movie. It seems movie producers are doing that lately to get you to sit through the credits!

One of the sound options was "English Uncompressed". Does anyone know exactly what that is. When I tried it I got a very compressed sound through my coaxial digital output. There was no dynamic range and the sound level was definitelylower than "English Dolby Digital 5.1".

"English Uncompressed" is a screwy way of them referring to Linear PCM, either 5.1 or 7.1, I believe. Your coaxial audio connection will only carry this signal in stereo. Maybe that is why it sounded bad. You will need to use HDMI or analogs (5.1 or 7.1) for audio to get the complete use of this format, and have your BD player and A/V receiver set up correctly.

Actually, if you can get it set up and working correctly, that sound option is the highest quality one on the disk. Can you use HDMI or analogs? If you run audio only through the coaxial or optical connections, you will not be able to take the best advantage of the high bit rate audio that Blu-ray offers.

Unfortunately, my present processor is old and does not have HDMI (Denon 4802), but I could run 6 analog audio cables from my Pioneer BDP-05FD.

I am starting to save for my next upgrade ... a Class

hidefbob,
You have three very nice pieces of equipment there. You should for sure hook up those analogs, set your Pioneer player to output PCM, and your Denon to multichannel. It'll blow your socks off. With the latest firmware on the Pioneer, you could play any audio option on the disc with it set up like that.