Has it been approved then? It won't affect the 950 (too late), but if it has been approved then it may free the Outlaws to start on some serious development of their DVD player and the 950's planned big brother.

As for what this is, there's been a big fight over DVD-Audio and SACD and copy protection. Currently, all DVD-A/SACD players must output an analog signal -- so you get 6 analog cables to deal with. The hope is that the powers that be can settle on a standard digital output format so the digital decoding of DVD-A & SACD can move to the receiver or pre/pro where all the other digital decoding is typically located. Firewire has been a likely candidate for the data connection, but I'd gotten the impression that it would be next year before anything was actually agreed on.

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Gonk