Yeah - It seems obvious to me, but that's a mistake - it doesn't hurt everyone.

In all fairness I suppose if I were a product manager and had to make a feature set choice (no bass management vs what's there) I might have done the same thing. As a product the 950 has to target the biggest possible market. They have been VERY aggressive about their price point and there's not a lot of room to wiggle. It will work for most folks. From that point of view Outlaw did the right thing I suppose, but not from _my_ point of view.

Since the price is so right and I don't even use the analog outs on a DVD-A yet the 950 probably would be OK, at least for a while if it were shipping.