Its been awhile since I started this thread. My wife and I have watched alot of movies since then too. I can happily say that I have not experienced any drop-outs since changing the optical inputs.

Weird.

But talking with other people that I work with, it seems that alot of people experience other problems with their home theater.

My one friend's system doesn't seem to produce any bass on DTS DVDs. While another seems to have problems with there video.

It seems that as technology get more advanced, more problems can occur.

Oh, I also want to say that I love my 1050, for movies and 2 channel music. I would recommend it to everyone. I am already hinting to my wife that we need to upgrade to the 950. Christmas is around the corner.