With the advent of HD-DVD and Blu-ray Disc™, new High Definition (HD) Audio signals. The new Marantz SR-7002 is perfectly adapt offering both audio decoding formats with this, the Marantz SR7002 offers more detail, extra effects, and a realistic 7.1 audio surround sound - and because the Marantz SR7002 has a much better audio decoding system. It now makes home DVD movies stand out from a conventional AV receiver. The presence of your home dvd collection will be given them a new lease of life. Of course av receives not only have to decode audio formats, they also have to decode the visual side too. With a 1080p upscaler and with a deep colour sophisticated processing system on each of the HDMI ouputs the SR7002 makes light work of this delivering a perfect dvd moive picture every time..