blu-ray coaxial outputs limited rez to dacs?


I have not been here so long I forgot my login!  Anyway, is it impossible to get the hi rez audio from a typical blu ray on the coaxial audio output?  Got ahold of a Pure Audio blu ray disc of music.  Supposed to be 24/96 format.  My player is putting out only 16/48 into the dac according to the dac display.  So I went into player menu and made sure the "downsampling"  selection was in the off position.  Still, only the lower rez data showing up into the dac.  So does that mean I would need a mega bucks blu ray to get the actual hi rez or what?  The dac oversamples it up before decoding but is supposed to be happy to accept stuff up to 192/24 I think.
w8aaz

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OK I will rephrase my question.  IS there a blu ray player that will output to a DAC with the full 24/96 from the Pure Audio discs?  That is not something in the mega bucks price range?   I messed with the settings on the player I have and still cannot get it.  It might be full rez on the HDMI to the TV or such, but I also would not like to invest in another box between the player and the DAC.  That is getting out of hand, for me. 
That doesn't make sense really, as you can send GHz. microwave signals thru coaxial cable,  the amplitude losses from long runs being the only negative factor, usually.  But if it is how it is, so be it.   Maybe I will soon be selling a bluray disc cheap.  I did not see anything in the specs of the player that would indicate that restriction but it may be a standard.  Was hoping for finally a convenient hi rez  format with gear I already have.  
OK so all I have that will take a HDMI input is my Sony TV.  So I guess that I am stuck trying to listen to the disc thru the TV as I noted happening  when I fired up the bluray player.  Or get some sort of HDMI device between my system and the bluray player.  This is getting to be a complication for sure. Since I have only purchased the one disc, now it is getting to how badly I want to hear it.  Let us see....29-39$ per disc, or more, plus, more hardware and cables.  You know, perhaps if it is intended only for people with "home theatre" type systems, they can have it.  I am a two channel type of guy.  Since my player already is also a 24/192 DAC I thought I could get something for not a lot of headaches but guess not. Thanks for the responses. 
Not having high hundreds or thousands available right now to guy yet another box for my system I thought I would be clever.  Saw a little bitty box on ebay that supposedly takes the HDMI out of the bluray and extracts  24/196 to coaxial or toslink outputs.  And runs off a USB port so I had to buy a little tiny USB walwort thinggee too. But the total expenditure was about 20$ maybe.  So I tried it all today.  Seems I can get either 16/192 or 24/48 by what I select on the player menu but not 24/192 data stream.  Or even 24/96 which the disc is supposed to be.  From observing the input rate display on the DAC. Oh well, best cut my losses,  find a buyer for a hardly used disc, and perhaps get my vinyl source back into the mix despite some inconvenience of setting it up.