The reason they give you DD/DTS decoding is for people who buy one of these "high end" universal players and are going to use it as their only DVD player. It becomes annoying to have to use 2 separate inputs on the receiver for 1 dvd player. Not to mention the software on some units will only allow one set of outputs to be on at any given time (either the 6 channel analog or the digital output). This is also a great hassle for then you'd have to go into the DVD player menu and change the output every time you wanted to change from a DVD movie to a DVD-A/SACD. The way they've done things to this point seems only logical to me. Perhaps DVD-A will forgo the menus at which point we can drop the video section altogether.