I have seemingly searched everywhere for the answer to this question, but have been unable to find it. I'm hoping someone here can help me.

I'm considering the Samsung BD-P1400 player, which, thanks to a firmware update can now bitsream DTS-HD master audio via HDMI.

Can a firmware update allow a player to INTERNALLY decode DTS-MA and pass it out through the 5.1 analog outputs, or does this capability require a hardware upgrade?

Thanks in advance.