A few items. My harry potter cos doesn't have a dts layer, as suggested by outlaw. Is mine different? Note to outlaw: reopen the potter thread. that's been the best source of information, and I suspect it will be needed more as time goes by. (I'm sick of surprises when my kids rent dvds.)Also, the "appalling" thing about the 1050 decoding issue is that it doesn't do what it was billed to do when I bought it in March. I never asked anything of outlaw other than information to help me guage the extent of my need for a player with onboard decoding make up for the 1050s shortcoming.